The man stepped off a trail, slipped and fell about 30m.
A tourist’s trip to the potholes at Bourke’s Luck in Mpumalanga ended in tragedy late yesterday afternoon when he slipped and fell to his death. A challenging operation to recover his body, saw the tourist attraction closed for some time yesterday.
Having sustained a massive head injury, which Geldenhuys said most likely was the cause of death, the man became lodged between two rocks in the moving water. Working from the bridge, the SARZA team lowered a rescue team member with a basket to the trapped victim. Next, Geldenhuys clambered down on his own steam before they strapped the victim into the basket and performed a 90-degree lift out of the site.
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