Taitung: A female hiker surnamed Chen was climbing Lake Jiaming when she fainted due to exhaustion and altitude sickness. She collapsed at the Jiaming Lake refuge hut at an altitude of over 3,000 meters the evening before last. Three local youth volunteers, one Italian hiker, firefighters, and Zhang Nengwei, chief of the Xiangyang Police Precinct, worked in relay to carry her down the mountain overnight. She has since been sent to hospital and is in stable condition with no serious injuries.