Injured hiker rescued from Mount Washington during extreme conditions

The article makes it sound like the weather was bad and the injuries the hiker sustained were not life threatening (albeit she could have been in a lot of pain) and she was already in relative safety of Lake of the Clouds Hut. Hence, I wonder if there is more to this story, or maybe they could have just waited out bad weather and carry out the evacuation a day or two later?

A busy couple days for SAR and F&G. A second incident occurred on Thursday:

FRANCONIA — Two cold, wet hikers were rescued from the Garfield Ridge Trail on Mount Lafayette Thursday afternoon, officials said.

According to state Fish and Game Lt. James Kneeland, Fish and Game was notified by the Rescue Coordination Center in Montgomery, Texas, about 1 p.m. that a group of hikers had enabled their DeLorme Locator Beacon, which indicated it was signalling from the Garfield Ridge Trail.
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Another hiker, Adam DeWolfe, of Seattle, Wash., came upon the two hikers, identified as husband and wife Gregory Reck, 69 and Lelia Vann, 57, just before 3 p.m., and sheltered the shivering couple in a tent he had been carrying.

Via NH911, the hypothermic hikers said they were part of a group of four hikers and that the other two hikers had separated from them earlier in an effort to make shelter at the Galehead Hut, where they arrived safely at about 6 p.m.

More: http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20160610/NEWHAMPSHIRE03/160619965