Authorities said that a 34-year-old Los Angeles man was hiking Saturday with his 14-year-old daughter and four of her friends, all between the ages of 14 and 16, and became stranded on the top of a rugged cliff slope on Goat Butte Mountain, said the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Two of the teenagers were able to make it down the mountain, and the remaining hikers managed to get cellphone service about 5 p.m. and place a 911 call to the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station. A search-and-rescue team used GPS to triangulate the hikers' location, and set up a rope-lowering system to bring the stranded hikers down the cliff.
One of the teenagers was removed by helicopter because she was too afraid to go down the slope, sheriff's officials said.
The rescue was complete by 9 p.m. and none of the hikers was injured in the incident.
The rescue comes after two recent incidents -- one of which occurred Saturday -- in which hikers fell to their deaths in the popular Eaton Canyon area of Angeles National Forest, as well as several other rescues by the Sheriff's Department in recent weeks. Officials reminded hikers to take extra precautions in planning outings, especially day hikes.
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