ORANGE — New Hampshire Fish and Game officers are preparing to ask the Attorney General’s Office to bill two unprepared hikers, including a Dartmouth College student, after they had to be rescued on Mount Cardigan on Monday evening.

Madeleine Wu, 20, of Hanover, who attends Dartmouth, and Bridge Liu, 20, of Los Angeles, began their hike up the Orange, N.H., mountain at around 4:30 p.m. Monday, according to a news release from NH Fish and Game. The pair hiked up the West Trail and were trying to descend on the South Ridge Trail when they encountered snow and ice that they could not navigate.

The two got in touch with emergency responders around 7 p.m. A rescue team arrived on scene around 8 p.m., and reached the students, who were about a mile from the trailhead, around an hour later, said NH Fish and Game Sgt. Heidi Murphy.

The responders, which included three conservation officers, gave the pair clothing, warm fluids and microspikes before making it back to the trailhead around 10 p.m. The pair were not injured.

Murphy said she planned to bill the pair “because I found them to be very ill-prepared. For what they should have brought, they didn’t have any of (it),” she said in a phone interview.

NH Fish and Game officials are still tallying the cost of the rescue, Murphy said.

She described the hikers as wearing sneakers.

“They really needed something with a tread,” she said.

In the news release, Murphy noted that the stranded pair “did not carry microspikes, food, extra clothing or headlamps, which if they had planned to bring, no assistance would have been needed.”

She emphasized that even though temperatures have gotten warmer, winter conditions may remain on New Hampshire’s mountains.

For more information about how to prepare for mountain hiking conditions, visit hikesafe.com.