On Sunday afternoon, a man fell approximately 20 metres to his death from a lookout point along Chapman’s Peak Drive, one of Cape Town’s most popular locations for hiking, cycling and picnicking.
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According to TimesLIVE, Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) teams were dispatched after a man, believed to be in his early 50s, fell down the sheer mountainside.
“Various rescue experts from different WSAR member agencies were mobilised and dispatched to the clifftop scene,” WSAR spokesperson David Nel told TimesLIVE on Monday.
When WSAR members arrived on the scene, they set up rescue ropes and abseiled down to the patient’s location, where they discovered he had tragically died from the fall, according to Nel.
Team members rigged a technical hauling system to help raise the body back up to the road and then assisted SAPS in transferring the deceased onto a stretcher.
Two local hikers who asked for help on Sunday when one of them got cramps on Table Mountain above Camps Bay were also helped by rescue teams.
Nel expressed gratitude to all team members who assisted in the operations, and he extended their condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
Read more on TimesLIVE.
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