PINCHER CREEK, Alta. — A rescue team helped save a woman who fell 45 metres down the slope of a mountain in southwestern Alberta.
RCMP say the woman was with a group of five other hikers on Mt. Haig Sunday when she fell.
Police say a team of national and provincial park officers responded and managed to remove the uninjured hikers from the mountain.
A rescuer stayed with the injured woman overnight in a survival tent after bad weather prevented her from being airlifted out of the area on Sunday.
She was flown to a Calgary hospital Monday with serious injuries.
RCMP Cpl. Jeff Feist says the teamwork of the different agencies and Alpine Helicopters contributed to the rescue.
"Saving this woman's life can be credited to the superior technical ability of all those who participated in this extremely complex mission," Feist said Monday in a release.
Feist also cited the efforts of search and rescue teams from Pincher Creek, Lethbridge, Crowsnest and the Castle Mountain Ski Resort for opening its lodge.
Mt Haig. is located on the Alberta and British Columbia boundary about 100 kilometres west of Lethbridge.
