Search and Rescue teams rescued a base jumper who crashed into a mountain wall shortly after taking off.
The Squamish Search and Rescue (SSR) team reports that the person jumped off Mount Slhanay, located east of Squamish, on Tuesday evening.
The team was guided to the launch site by a friend of the base jumper.
After locating the man on a small rock feature 60 feet below the edge, the Squamish team requested support from the North Shore Rescue (NSR) team and a helicopter.
Together, they decided that “the steep and rough terrain would make a stretcher carry extremely challenging,” the SSR said in a social media post.
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With the aid of the helicopter, the team performed a hoist extraction of the young man.
The base jumper was “very fortunate, sustaining injuries to both ankles but otherwise doing well,” the SSR said.