Search for missing hiker on: Rescue effort continue for fallen hiker

Search for missing hiker on: Rescue effort continue for fallen hiker. A 52-year-old man got himself trapped in the carter at Washington’s Mount St. Helens. Till the filing of the story the climber was inside the volcano’s crater. However, efforts were on to rescue him. The man is trapped in such a way that he cannot move. Rescuers are having difficulties in extricating him from the carter.

But they have yet not given up. Help is being sought from expert rescue team. 

Chief Tom McDowell of the North Coast EMS Rescue Team told TV network: "The pilot did a reconnaissance flight, got up relatively close, and couldn’t see any movement. He didn't make any effort to signal the helicopter."

The report has been confirmed by authorities. They say that the man, who is from Washington, was a well-trained hiker. And before this he had climbed the mountain as many as 68 times.

Rescuers, who are camping on the spot, are of the opinion that the man slipped 1,500 feet into the crater as he was trying to take picture of the ledge. It is understood that the other man did not fall.

"It would have been a very significant, injurious fall on the way down," McDowell said. The name of the man has not been identified. But all agree that the place is dangerous one. And in 1980 the Mount St. Helens, a volcano, had erupted killing some 57 people. Since then it has remained dormant, but it is still dangerous.