A BASE jumper was rescued close to Squamish, B.C., on Tuesday after getting their parachute tangled in a tree on the Stawamus Chief.
The mishap left the thrill-seeker dangling over a steep cliffside on the widespread out of doors vacation spot.
Members of North Shore Rescue labored alongside Squamish Search and Rescue on what crews described as a “extremely technical” operation that required hoisting the person off the mountain with a helicopter.
In a Fb put up, North Shore Rescue mentioned the BASE jumper had turn out to be “caught on down-sloping snow lined slab with important fall hazard.”
“A single rescuer was inserted utilizing the Petzl Lezard (lanyard machine) and anchored to a tree,” the volunteer group wrote.
“The rescuer made their solution to the topic, packaged him in a harness and so they climbed again to the insertion level whereas hooked up to the anchor.”
The difficult rescue took a number of hours, however everybody concerned made it out safely.
