Squamish SAR volunteers responded by helicopter to the south face of Serratus Mountain in the Tantalus Range on Friday morning (Aug. 6) to rescue two injured climbers.
An Alberta couple, a 70-year-old man and his 67-year-old wife, were injured after the man slipped traversing a steep snow slope approaching Alpha Mountain.
The second climber was pulled down when the man was unable to arrest her slide.
They both slid and tumbled about 60 metres down the snow before coming to a stop on a steep rocky slope below the snow.
SAR members accessed and then stabilized the two injured climbers who suffered suspected back, chest and other injuries before they were long lined from the scene to an advanced staging area near Lake Lovely Water.
BC Ambulance Service members transferred the injured to an Air Ambulance and flew them directly to Vancouver General Hospital.
