National

Rescuers Team Up To Help Woman Who Fell Off Mountain In Southwestern Alta.

The Canadian Press, 15 Nov, 2016 12:19 PM

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.

Prev Next

MORE National ARTICLES

CIBC To Repay $73 Million After Overcharging Clients For 14 Years

The bank will also pay $3 million to the Ontario Securities Commission toward its mandate of protecting investors, while a further payment of $50,000 will go to cover the costs of the investigation.

CIBC To Repay $73 Million After Overcharging Clients For 14 Years

Ontario Premier Calls Inmate's 52-month Segregation 'Extremely Disturbing'

Adam Capay was in isolation for 52 months at a Thunder Bay, Ont., jail, held in a Plexiglas cell with the lights on 24 hours a day.

Ontario Premier Calls Inmate's 52-month Segregation 'Extremely Disturbing'

Conjugal Visits Increase Public Safety, Help Offenders Reintegrate, Experts Say

Lee Chapelle has fond memories of spending afternoons with his wife in the mid-1990s, barbecuing in a small yard while his young children played in the grass and mimicked the cows' moos as the animals grazed in a nearby field.

Conjugal Visits Increase Public Safety, Help Offenders Reintegrate, Experts Say

Adults Shamed From Speaking Indigenous Languages Hold Key To Revival, Survival

Now, people who didn't learn their mother tongue from their parents are key to saving and revitalizing the languages, British Columbia researchers say.

Adults Shamed From Speaking Indigenous Languages Hold Key To Revival, Survival

Mechanical Problem On PM's Plane 'Rare': RCAF Says

An RCAF Airbus carrying Justin Trudeau turned around and returned to Ottawa Saturday night about half an hour after taking off.

Mechanical Problem On PM's Plane 'Rare': RCAF Says

Baby Jesus Statue To Remain Headless Until May Or June, Says Sudbury, Ont., Priest

A decapitated statue of baby Jesus outside a Catholic church in northern Ontario will remain headless this Christmas, as the church says it will be months before the head can be reattached.