BASE jumper rescued from the Stawamus Chief after his parachute gets snagged | 24CA News
Rescue crews say a thrill-seeker in Squamish received a much bigger rush than he anticipated Tuesday night.
The man was BASE Jumping off the Stawamus Chief, in keeping with Mike Teske with Squamish Search and Rescue.
“His parachute got entangled in a tree,” Teske advised Global News.
“He had an accident on the way down and so we responded with a helicopter response and a ground response.”
But the rescue received sophisticated when daylight light, and the realm clouded over.
Teske says North Shore Rescue was tapped to assist with a helicopter loaded with night time imaginative and prescient gear.
“Fortunately, they were very successful. The clouds cleared and it was a beautiful night, and they were able to extract the patient from the ledge just below the first peak.”
While NSR was in a position to rescue the person, Teske says Squamish crews would have been in a position to get to him as effectively, however it will have taken the entire night time.
“Had this been a conventional rope rescue, we’d be there until five, six in the morning. There’s a lot of snow and ice on the Chief. So there’s definitely hazards to our team. We would have been successful, but it would have been a very drawn-out exercise and the risk would have been high.”
Teske provides, the person was safely rescued and utterly unhurt.
“He was uninjured, miraculously after taking a fall like that. He has no injuries; he will be just fine.”
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