A woman who fell 10 metres down a rock face in West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park on Friday was lucky to escape with minor injuries.
Jeff Bush, assistant fire chief for West Vancouver Fire and Rescue, said the woman was hiking with a group of five frients when she fell down a steep cliff sometime before noon.
West Vancouver Fire and Rescue crews received the emergency call, arrived on scene and managed to get down to the woman, who they packed on to a spine board. Bush said the woman suffered multiple cuts and lacerations in the fall, including cuts to her head, but added it could have been far worse.
“She was a very lucky lady apparently,” he said. “There was definitely a potential for her to sustain some massive injuries but luckily she didn’t.”
Bush said a Coast Guard hovercraft was brought in to take the woman out of Lighthouse Park and take her to nearby Stearman Beach in West Vancouver, where she was taken by ambulance to hospital.
