Body of El Monte woman who went missing during Mount Baldy hike found
Authorities said on Saturday, someone flying a drone in the area had reported possibly seeing the body of Lifei “Ada” Huang.
Monday, February 12, 2024
MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (KABC) — An El Monte woman who went missing while hiking in the Mount Baldy area amid the recent winter storm was found dead, authorities said.
According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the body of Lifei “Ada” Huang was recovered early Sunday morning. Authorities said on Saturday, someone flying a drone in the area had reported possibly seeing Huang.
“Deputies and search and rescue team members responded to the upper San Antonio Creek Falls area but were unable to hike to the spot where Ms. Huang was believed to be, due to the conditions on the mountain,” said the sheriff’s department in a statement.
Sherriff’s aviation crews were also unable to perform an aerial search on Saturday due to high winds.
Search and rescue team members spent the night in the area near the location to preserve the scene, authorities said.
The following morning, around 7:45 a.m., crews hoisted medics down to the location, where Huang was found dead.
“We would like to thank all our personnel and volunteers that aided in the search, as well as the citizen that alerted U.S. Forestry,” said the sheriff’s department.
Huang, 22, had told her friends and family she was going for a hike on the mountain last weekend. Then the powerful storm rolled in.
An official cause of death has not been released.
Body of woman who vanished on Mt. Baldy recovered
Feb 11, 2024
The body of a hiker who went missing on Mount Baldy was recovered Sunday morning, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
Lifei Huang, 22, from El Monte was last seen alive on Feb. 4, when she went out on a solo hike at around 2 p.m. that day.
Crews searched the area throughout the week but were forced to retreat due to increasingly unsafe conditions after a winter snowstorm hit the area.
On Saturday, a citizen told the U.S. Forest Service that they believed they spotted Huang from a drone. Deputies along with search and rescue crews were dispatched and tried to reach the location, but were unable to do so due to unsafe conditions.
It was not until around 7:45 a.m. Sunday that a sheriff’s department air rescue aircraft recovered Huang’s body from the location, law enforcement officials confirmed.
“We would like to thank all our personnel and volunteers that aided in the search, as well as the citizen that alerted U.S. Forestry,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
Huang’s cause of death was not immediately released.
Body of woman is found on Mt. Baldy a week after she went hiking alone during storm
FEB. 11, 2024
The body of an El Monte woman who disappeared while hiking alone on Mt. Baldy was recovered Sunday morning, ending a treacherous, weeklong search, officials said.
Lifei “Ada” Huang, 22, disappeared about two hours into a solo trek Feb. 4, just as the worst of last week’s historic storms hit Southern California, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department.
Huang was reported missing just before midnight; rescue crews went out to search for her around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 5. But “extreme” snowfall and avalanche risks stymied their efforts, officials said.
Three other hikers were rescued Feb. 7 after getting pinned down by the storms the day before on the Bear Canyon Trail.
“Resources are stretched to their limits, and hikers who get lost may have to wait long periods of time before help is available,” the Sheriff’s Department had warned.
Mt. Baldy has become one of the country’s deadliest destinations for hikers, racking up scores of rescues and almost a dozen deaths in recent years. The Sheriff’s Department has pushed to limit access to the peak.
But Huang was an experienced adventurer, her Instagram page shows.
She had recently hiked the Wave, a difficult and sometimes dangerous rock formation in the Arizona desert. She enjoyed beach camping in Santa Cruz, stargazing in Joshua Tree and snowboarding in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Friends posted notes to her page praying she would be home to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
On Saturday, the Sheriff’s Department got a tip that someone flying a drone may have spotted Huang’s body near the San Antonia Creek Falls.
High winds kept the air rescue team from searching the area until early Sunday, when medics located Huang’s remains.
22岁华人女孩独自雪山徒步失联9天不幸遇难，当地华人曾自发组队寻人
2024-02-13
据媒体报道，美国圣贝纳迪诺县治安部门称，当地时间周日上午，在秃头山某处发现了一具徒步登山者遗体，该遗体身份为此前独自进山徒步，并于2月4日失联的22岁华人女性黄丽菲（音）。
当地媒体称，黄丽菲是在秃顶山的一场暴风雪中失联的。那场暴风雪当中，有3英尺（约0.91米）厚的积雪从秃顶山上倾泻而下，正因为如此，雪崩的危险一度使得地面人员的搜寻工作暂停。最终，工作人员在一周内搜索了该地区，但由于冬季暴风雪袭击该地区后，该区域变得越来越不安全，搜救人员被迫撤退。
此后，以当地华人为主的登山志愿者多次组队，自发在该区域内继续寻找。
当地时间2月10日，美国林务局接到市民线索称，他们通过无人机摄像头，找到了黄丽菲的踪迹，然而搜救人员们最终因为安全因素，无法抵达疑似黄丽菲遗体所在点位。执法人员证实，直到次日早上7点45分，治安部门才通过空中救援飞机，在该地点找到了黄丽菲的遗体。
圣贝纳迪诺县警察局在一份声明中称，“我们要感谢所有协助搜索的工作人员和志愿者，以及向美国林业局报警的公民。”
目前，黄丽菲的死亡原因尚未公布。
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