Squamish Search and Rescue helicopter crews airlifted a female climber to the emergency room after she fell from Slhanay, previously known as the Stawamus Squaw, on Friday.
Exact details on her injuries are unavailable, but rescuers believe they are not life threatening.
Search and rescue president BJ Chute says that the operation had a three-pronged approach.
“It was actually quite a technical rescue,” he said.
Rappellers were in position to reach the fallen climber from above, while a team below her was getting ready to climb to her position. A helicopter approached from the air.
“We had three plans going,” he said.
It ended up being the helicopter team who made the rescue. They hitched a line to the injured athlete and brought her to hospital.
It was an operation that lasted several hours Friday night, as rescuers spent considerable time planning the approach.
"Everyone's waiting," said Chute, at the time.
"We'll try and use a helicopter and if not, we'll climb to [her]. Otherwise we'll go down from the top."
"It's going to be hours," Chute said.
Chute said the cause of the accident remains unclear.
There was another rescue that took place over the weekend.
A pair of climbers were stranded on University Wall, a climb on the Stawamus Chief, on Sunday.
They lost their rope, said Chute, so rescuers flew up with a helicopter and handed them a spare.
The climbers were then able to get off the Chief safely, he said.
Squamish Search and Rescue has been particularly busy lately, Chute said in a previous interview, but if the call statistics are calculated as an average over the year, it’s roughly on par with the norm.
***Last updated Monday, June 4, 10:19 a.m.
