{"id":42562,"date":"2026-01-02T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/back-to-back-rescues-on-lions-head\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:26:21","slug":"back-to-back-rescues-on-lions-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/back-to-back-rescues-on-lions-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-Back Rescues on Lion\u2019s Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) teams responded to the Kloof Nek landing zone after a 57-year-old paraglider crashed on the slopes below the Lion’s Head parking area. <\/p>\n

This marks the third paragliding incident on Lion’s Head since 25 November, when world-renowned South African extreme sports athlete and aviator Jean-Jacques Wallis suffered a fatal crash on the mountain. <\/p>\n

Following this tragedy, a foreign paraglider survived a crash on 8 December and is recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n

A member of Global Medical Safety & Risk Solutions, who is also an active WSAR member, witnessed the incident and immediately responded. Together with City of Cape Town Law Enforcement, SANParks – Table Mountain National Park rangers, Life Healthcare, and Taurus Medical Film and Sports Medics, he hiked up to the fallen pilot to provide assistance. <\/p>\n

City of Cape Town Traffic Services managed traffic while the rescue was underway.<\/p>\n

The pilot was assessed on scene by paramedics…<\/p>\n

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Earlier today, Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) teams responded to the Kloof Nek landing zone after a 57-year-old paraglider crashed on the slopes below the Lion’s Head parking area. This marks the third paragliding incident on Lion’s Head since 25 November, when world-renowned South African extreme sports athlete and aviator Jean-Jacques Wallis suffered a fatal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/605997527_1311897977650581_6589947067797152040_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/605997527_1311897977650581_6589947067797152040_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}