“The Lip,” upper right corner, is the approximate location of where the recent avalanche was triggered in New Hampshire. Two hikers who triggered an avalanche on Mount Washington were rescued early Sunday.

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. — Two hikers who triggered an avalanche on Mount Washington that carried them 800 feet over rocks, cliffs and ice were rescued early Sunday morning and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

The two were separated from a pair of fellow hikers and missed a turn on a trail because of low visibility and unknowingly entered an avalanche area known as “the Lip,” triggering the avalanche that carried them to the bottom of Tuckerman Ravine, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Colleen Mainville.

Mainville said the avalanche occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday and the call for help came in just after 8 p.m.

The injured and disoriented hikers climbed about 200 feet before they were met by rescuers and they were able to hike down with assistance to shelters on the mountain, Mainville said. They were transported by a U.S. Forest Service snow cat to awaiting ambulances at about 2 a.m. Sunday.

Mainville said she doesn’t know whether they were admitted to the hospital, but she said they were treated on the mountain for bumps and bruises and one appeared to have a fractured arm. White Mountain National Forest officials are not releasing the hikers’ names.

“They were very, very lucky,” Mainville said Sunday.

Mainville said a half dozen organizations participated in the overnight rescue, including White Mountain National Forest snow rangers and volunteers from the International Mountain Climbing School, the Mountain Rescue Service of North Conway, Appalachian Mountain Club, Harvard Mountaineering Club and Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue.