2 California hikers fell 800 feet down a mountain. Their rescue took days.

A dramatic three-day rescue effort that involved helicopters, high winds and 20 mountain rescue team members saved the lives of two hikers who had fallen 800 feet down a snowy mountain near Idyllwild, California. The unnamed male and female hikers plummeted down the side of Tahquitz Peak, an 8,846-foot-tall rock formation on the western slope of the San Jacinto mountain range in Riverside County, on Saturday, March 1. “The hikers called 911 and...