JOSHUA TREE – (INT) – The coroner has disclosed the death of a hiker at the Joshua Tree National Park last weekend.

Samuel Boldissar, 25, of Redondo Beach was pronounced dead Saturday about an hour after being injured at Cyclops Rock. In a separate incident, a 69-year-old man rock climbing in the Joshua Tree National Park fell 25-feet onto a ledge and was unable to move. Tom Hurgis from Jackson, Wyoming was hoisted into a rescue helicopter and flown to an awaiting ambulance.

The incidents were among a half-dozen across the Inland Empire last weekend in which rescue helicopters or search and rescue teams were called out to help injured or lost hikers.

Near Yucaipa, two brothers, aged 12 and 15, were airlifted from a foothill trail near their Chapman Heights home after medical personnel were flown to a hilltop to check on the pair. They were taken to an awaiting ambulance and eventually a local hospital.

Circumstances of both incidents were not detailed.

On Sunday, a California Highway Patrol helicopter crew rescued two Fontana women who'd become lost in Ladder Canyon in the Mecca Hills Wilderness Area in the lower Coachella Valley.

Another helicopter rescue was called off Sunday when clouds obscured a canyon in the foothills above Highland where a hiker became stranded on a rock ledge. A search and rescue team eventually walked into the canyon and brought Jeffrey Dancel, 23, of San Bernardino to safety.

The weekend was capped with the rescue of six lost hikers in the Mecca Hills. All were from Running Springs and were uninjured.

Story Date: March 30, 2017