Jack Tragni, 24, Vaishnav Raja, 25, and Justin Yang, 24, departed for a hike on Mount Lincoln and were stranded there for 12 hours in the snowy and windy conditions

Three men were on a training hike when they got caught in whiteout conditions and had to send an SOS message, New Hampshire rescuers said. Rescuers got the message from the men’s satellite device at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, from the Mount Lincoln area, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Law Enforcement Division said in a Facebook post.

Rescuers helped three Massachusetts hikers who experienced whiteout conditions and were suffering from cold-related injuries on Sunday. Fish and Game was notified around 5:30 p.m. of an SOS alert from the area of Mount Lincoln,

Three men from Boston and Cambridge sounded an SOS on Sunday evening after encountering potentially dangerous, snowy conditions in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.