Woman tumbles the length of 5 football fields down a California volcano. She's OK - BERITAJA

Over the weekend, the U.S. Forest Service rescued a 31-year-old female who fell immoderate 1,500 feet down Mt. Shasta.

Somehow, she escaped the ordeal without superior injuries.

“The diligent was recovered alert, successful bully spirits, and suffering from a suspected fractured correct ankle on pinch further injuries accordant pinch the important fall,” the agency said in a societal media post connected Tuesday.

The female had been portion of a group of 3 novice climbers who were ascending a steep, high-altitude way up Mt. Shasta successful Northern California connected Sunday. She fell from about 13,000 feet to about 11,500 feet, about the magnitude of 5 shot fields, earlier coming to remainder connected the stratovolcano. At 14,179 feet, it is the second-highest highest successful the Cascade Range.

Because of unreality screen limiting activity by a helicopter, rangers traveled connected ft to scope the hiker, who was lowered down to Lake Helen, according to the U.S. Forest Service. That evening astatine about 5:30 p.m., a California Highway Patrol chopper transported the female to Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta.

“This incident serves arsenic an important reminder that Mount Shasta is simply a high-altitude mountaineering environment, not a hike. Even knowledgeable climbers could brushwood quickly changing weather, steep snowfall and ice, rockfall, and hazardous autumn conditions,” the agency said.