Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief

There were immoderate terrifying moments for a BASE jumper successful Squamish, B.C., connected Wednesday, who was near dangling from her parachute connected the look of the Stawamus Chief.

Squamish Search and Rescue was called to the fashionable climbing and recreation country aft idiosyncratic reported the jumper trapped connected the stone look conscionable beneath the First Peak.

“(She) was suspended astir 100 metres beneath her takeoff point,” Squamish Search and Rescue hunt manager Mike Teske explained.

“She was successful a comparatively susceptible position. She was hanging from her parachute from a tiny outcropping of rock, with astir apt 200 metres beneath her.”

After flying to the apical to measure the situation, Teske said crews determined they couldn’t execute a chopper rescue owed to the hazard the aircraft’s downwash could stroke the pistillate from her precarious position.

That meant gearing up for a accepted enactment rescue instead, an cognition that yet progressive 32 Search-and-Rescue volunteers.

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A ample unit of squad members lowered 1 of their colleagues down the stone look to the victim, wherever they were capable to get her retired of her parachute and safely connected to their enactment system.

The brace were past lowered to the ground, wherever paramedics carried her to a waiting ambulance.

Global News is seeking an update connected the jumper’s condition.

Teske described the cognition arsenic “smooth,” thing helium attributed to the information crews person been called to aggregate akin rescues successful the aforesaid location.

“This is the 3rd rescue of a BASE jumper successful the aforesaid determination that I person been a portion of,” helium said.

“We bash a mates of these each year, basal jumpers, fallen climbers, wingsuiters, you sanction it.”