The man who fell to his death from a lookout point along Chapman’s Peak Drive on Sunday has been identified.
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Messages of condolence have been posted on social media following news of the death of 51-year-old, Guy Hawthorne.
Hawthorne, a past pupil at Bergvliet High School and editorial director of Travel Ideas Magazine, plummeted approximately 20 metres at one of Cape Town’s most popular locations for hiking, cycling and picnicking.
His body was later recovered by a team from Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR).
Wilderness Search and Rescue teams were dispatched on Sunday after receiving reports of a man that had fallen down the sheer mountainside.
“Various rescue experts from different WSAR member agencies were mobilised and dispatched to the clifftop scene,” WSAR spokesperson David Nel said on Monday.
When rescue team 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.
Our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
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Picture: Facebook/ WSAR and BHS passed pupils
