Two hikers in New York’s Adirondack Mountains known as 911 to report a 3rd member of their occasion had died, but it surely turned out that they had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and had been mistaken, officers mentioned Wednesday.
The 2 hikers who known as 911 additionally advised a steward on the mountain’s summit that they had been misplaced. The steward “determined the hikers were in an altered mental state,” based on the company.
The supposedly lifeless particular person known as and was not injured.
The ranger escorted the 2 hikers all the way down to an ambulance, which took them to a hospital, and introduced the third to the group’s campsite, the place all of them later met up, officers mentioned.