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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A student pilot whose plane crashed into a mountainside and who later hiked a mile in waist-deep snow to meet rescuers has been released from a Billings hospital.

A spokeswoman for St. Vincent Healthcare says 18-year-old pilot Andrew Scheffer was discharged late Thursday morning, a day after he was rescued on Big Pryor Mountain, about 40 miles south of Billings.

The 18-year-old freshman at Rocky Mountain College was on a solo training flight from Billings to Powell, Wyo., when the small plane crashed late Tuesday. Scheffer is a student in the college's aviation program and the plane was registered to the school.

Scheffer was treated for frostbite, a concussion and various cuts and bruises.

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