Dedicated teams of professionals and volunteers from Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) assisted SAPS in recovering the body of a 58-Year-old foreign tourist from Table Mountain on Wednesday, 11 January.
A WSAR team numbering more than 20 personnel was transported to the top of Table Mountain with the assistance of the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway. The team hiked across the top to an area near the Ledges route on Table Mountain’s eastern table.
Once on scene, members abseiled down to the fallen hiker and packaged him into a stretcher. Once secured, the team carefully raised the deceased to the top of a cliff.
The Western Cape Department of Health EMS / Air Mercy Service (AMS) rescue helicopter was tasked to assist with the recovery process and, once on the scene, hoisted the stretcher up into the helicopter.
The body was flown to a nearby landing zone and handed over to SAPS.
Tourist recovered on Table Mountain https://t.co/DDPvrE2QCt#ArriveAlive @WSARWesternCape…
