The Western Cape Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) has stated that they are currently busy with a with a rescue on Platteklip Gorge, Table Mountain, on Monday, 26 February 2024, on 9am, according to a post made on their Facebook page.
Wilderness Search and Rescue has confirmed that both patients have been safely carried from Table Mountain ‘in a Herculean effort’.
‘He had made slow steady progress down the trail for nearly eight hours, as teams of rescuers carried his aunt down the mountain, but was unable to proceed any further,’ said WSAR in a Facebook post.The final tally of the rescue team who attended to the two stranded visitors totalled nearly 50 people, including WSAR volunteer rescuers, WC Department of Health EMS medics, Metro Police officers, City law enforcement officers, SANPark rangers and the CPUT students.
The rescue organisation also expressed thanks to Bacini’s Pizzeria & Deli, who provided the responders with pizzas ‘which sustained the massive team effort’.Two individuals have been rescued, a 53-year-old visiting hiker from KwaZulu-Natal and her 28-year-old nephew, thanks to a ‘large multi-agency and multi-disciplinary team, totalling more than twenty rescuers’.
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