British traveller discovered after night stranded on North Shore mountain
A hiker who spent a cold, wet night on a North Shore plateau has been rescued.
Michael Buckingham became mislaid on Crown Mountain around 4:45 p.m. on Monday. He phoned for help, observant he was stranded on a cliff.
A helicopter left for a long-line rescue of a stranded hiker on Crown Mountain only before 8 a.m. on Tuesday. (Yvette Brend/CBC)
Rain and low cloud hampered overnight hunt efforts and a male was discovered by helicopter only after 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Buckingham, a British tourist, stood on his possess after being lowered from a helicopter’s prolonged line, explaining to circuitously crews that something had left wrong with an app he’d been regulating to navigate.
Challenging terrain
North Shore Rescue hunt manager Simon Jackson pronounced Buckingham, who is in his thirties, didn’t have a lot of hiking knowledge in a area.Â
Jackson said the hiker’s app had an false map, that led him into a fraudulent situation.
A hunt group heads home after a night on Crown Mountain. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC)
“It’s not a hiking trail,” pronounced Jackson. “It’s a hasten trail, with some flattering unprotected sections.”
Jackson pronounced crews were means to get Buckingham’s co-ordinates from his cellphone and dispatched a margin organisation to his plcae overnight — though bad continue was problematic.
With files from Yvette Brend
Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stranded-tourist-hiker-crown-mountain-1.4855131?cmp=rss