{"id":57263,"date":"2026-09-29T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/all-night-rescue-of-international-tourists\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:00:06","slug":"all-night-rescue-of-international-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/all-night-rescue-of-international-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"All-night Rescue of International Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&bull; Overnight operation to rescue two foreign hikers stranded near the Boss 400 wreck<br \/>\n&bull; Strong winds force rescuers to abandon helicopter extraction<br \/>\n&bull; Patient lowered 60m down granite slabs before NSRI teams floated both hikers to waiting boats<\/p>\n<p>A planned coastal hike from Llandudno to Hout Bay became an overnight rescue operation after a 38-year-old German visitor began struggling to walk shortly after passing the Boss 400 wreck.<\/p>\n<p>The visitor and his partner had been following an online navigation app that did not reflect the current condition of the trail, including sections that are overgrown, difficult to navigate and hazardous. They therefore had little indication of the challenges they would encounter along this stretch of coastline.<\/p>\n<p>After injuring his ankle, the exhausted pair turned back towards Llandudno. As they made their way back, they reached a particularly challenging section of the trail and made the right decision to call the emergency number (021 937&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78745&#038;page=all-night-rescue-of-international-tourists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&bull; Overnight operation to rescue two foreign hikers stranded near the Boss 400 wreck &bull; Strong winds force rescuers to abandon helicopter extraction &bull; Patient lowered 60m down granite slabs before NSRI teams floated both hikers to waiting boats A planned coastal hike from Llandudno to Hout Bay became an overnight rescue operation after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57264,"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\/827311649_1607495154253544_3329683781420795676_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/827311649_1607495154253544_3329683781420795676_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57263","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=57263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}