Marin Search and Rescue teens aid in dramatic Mount Shasta rescue

A climber with a broken leg stuck on a glacier for two nights is now safe after being rescued from Mount Shasta, and it was a search and rescue team from Marin County, among others, who helped. As KTVU's Zach Sauce reports tonight, the team, which did include five teenagers, used their highly technical skills to save the climber's life. A daring rescue mission that started 12,000 feet up Mount Shasta ending as a success Tuesday. We're splinting this so that we can move him into the litter. A 39-year-old hiker from Florida who fell into a crevasse on the mountain 275 miles north of San Francisco, plucked from a near-death situation by an elite group of rescuers from Marin County. We wanted to travel as light as possible, and so there was definitely a big consideration on exactly what we were going to take. If Cody Davis seems young to be scaling peaks to save lives, you'd be correct, he's just 17. But make no mistake about it, the Marin County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team, also known as Marin SAR, is the best of the best, part of a multi-agency group that performed the difficult rescue. This was definitely one of the more challenging things I've ever done. It was really difficult terrain, really high winds. Jane Wolk, also on the 11-member team, and among five teens who braved freezing conditions to help rescue the hiker who spent two days trapped at the bottom of the icy rift with a broken leg. His toes aren't black, but his feet are solid ice. After two U.S. Forest Service rangers managed to pull the man out of the icy chasm, they still needed a way to get him off the mountain. But 60-mile-per-hour winds made it impossible for a helicopter to climb that high. That's where the Marin SAR team came into play, navigating loose boulders and slippery terrain to reach the hiker. Once we got up there, then we continued patient care and worked on getting him down from the mountain. Nick and I set ourselves up. We braced ourselves on the rock and we were the anchor in the system that helps lower the patient. Using a highly technical rope system inch by inch, they lowered the man down a steep rocky slope to an awaiting CHP chopper. I think when that helicopter took off, we all had a collective great sigh of relief and excitement. They're beasts, and they did a fantastic job. I could not have been more proud of the effort that the entire team made. Just an incredible job by this team, and thanks to their hard work, this hiker now recovering in the hospital, recovering from frostbite and a broken leg, and expected to be okay. In San Rafael, Zach Sauce, KTVU, Fox 2 News.