Trapped Climber Rescued in Bugaboos
Search and rescue teams used a mechanical device to extract the stuck climber
Columbia Valley Search and Rescue were busy this weekend, with their first call being a climber who was trapped beneath a boulder below Crescent Spire.
The search team said on social media, “A team of rescuers responded and were able to lift the boulder off the subject’s leg with a mechanical lifting device. The subject was transported to Invermere for further medical aid.”
While the Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col is open to travel, much of Snowpatch Spire is closed due to the rockfall this past winter – read about it here.  While it’s not common, climbers due get stuck beneath boulders and even in cracks on Bugaboo routes.
Watch a video below taken in 2007 by Brandon Pullan of an ongoing rescue of a climber on Bugaboo Spire after they got a leg stuck along the Kain Route.
2007 Rescue
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