At approximately 7:40pm on Monday, Camps Bay Community Safety Initiative (CBCSI) was alerted to a group of 14 hikers, including children and a pregnant person who had become lost on the mountain.
, trail runners were arranged to go up and meet with the hikers and help them proceed down the mountain.In an unrelated incident, Wilderness Search And Rescue members suspended a planned training exercise after a trail runner fell from the contour path on Saturday morning.
Rescuers involved in the training were placed on standby and the exercise was briefly suspended after reports of a fallen trail runner were received shortly after 09h00. The injured trail runner was assessed and treated before being placed into a stretcher and hoist up into the helicopter.The incident was concluded at 11h05.
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