A 56-year-old American visitor collapsed while hiking Platteklip Gorge on Saturday, prompting an urgent helicopter rescue
A 56-year-old American visitor collapsed while hiking Platteklip Gorge on Saturday, prompting an urgent helicopter rescue.
Watch as a Western Cape Government Health and Wellness EMS paramedic is hoisted down to reach the patient before he is airlifted to safety and transferred to a waiting ambulance.
This was just ONE of SEVEN incidents that kept Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) teams exceptionally busy on Saturday.
Seven incidents. One mountain. An extraordinary day for our rescue teams.
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Video via Hendre Zoutendyk
Full rescue report to follow.
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