BREAKING: Several tourists stranded on Table Mountain

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Cape Town – Several tourists have been left stranded on Table Mountain following a climbing incident involving three people, Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) said on Monday evening.

WSAR spokesperson Johann Marais said the Table Mountain Cable Car is being used in the rescue operation of two climbers dangling from ropes on Arrow Final of the mountain.

"A third person also on a controlled rope is administering CPR to one of the persons," Marais said.

"With the cable car being used as a rescue vehicle, people cannot take the cable car down."

The men are dangling from ropes below the upper cable station at least 150 metres down.

Marais said 20 officials have been deployed to scene for the rescue operation.

- This developing story

Adrian Robson @Adrian_L_Robson

Rescue operation still in progress. Nobody can get off mountain. #tablemountain. Some of us been in queue for more than 4 hours. https://twitter.com/Adrian_L_Robson/status/947889104452292608 …
8:37 PM - Jan 1, 2018

Table Mountain C/Way @TableMountainCa

Operation is suspended. Temperature at the top is cold, wind strength is medium, visibility zero #tmweather
7:54 PM - Jan 1, 2018

News24
https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-tourists-stranded-on-table-mountain-20180101
 
shakes1 said:
Unfortunately two people have passr d away. There is a single survivor. Rescue completed and recovery underway.
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https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-in-table-mountain-climbing-incident-20180101

Two men have been declared dead following a dramatic rescue mission on Table Mountain which left over 800 people stranded for hours.

The men, together with a woman, were climbing Arrow Final on the side of the mountain when they are believed to have fallen.

"[The] bodies [of the men] will be secured to the cliff and Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) will commence bringing those bodies down" once all the visitors have been brought down, WSAR's Johann Marais said.
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Its really not that hard to walk down Platteklip gorge. Its like a 30 min clamber at most (down).
It baffles me as to why 800 people just stood at the cable station looking like chops....

Sorry to hear about the lives lost on the mountain though.
 
Nerfherder said:
Its really not that hard to walk down Platteklip gorge. Its like a 30 min clamber at most (down).
It baffles me as to why 800 people just stood at the cable station looking like chops....

Sorry to hear about the lives lost on the mountain though.
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Depends on your physical state and knowledge though? Think about it - lives lost and then the company directs 800 people to climb down? Not a chance.
 
Grant said:
deaths - table mountain vs mount everest:
tm225 vs me219
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Why not post the source of these stats?

Some of the TM deaths would be crime related, whereas the ME ones mostly not.

http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2017/12/17/everest-by-the-numbers-2018-edition/
2017 Recap

2017 was good year for Everest with the second most summits at 648. Of the climbers who went above base camp, 61% went on to summit. This was the same summit results as 2016 and the second highest summit total after 658 in 2013. There were 446 from the south and 202 from the north side in 2017. 17 climbers attempted to summit with supplemental oxygen, 11 succeeded – a big number. There were six confirmed deaths – five on the south and one on the north.
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Grant said:
deaths - table mountain vs mount everest:
tm225 vs me219
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Great. But give it as a ratio of climbers / visitors. Otherwise it is skewed. There are way more people visiting table mountain than Everest
 
creeper said:
Great. But give it as a ratio of climbers / visitors. Otherwise it is skewed. There are way more people visiting table mountain than Everest
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This, a lot of the Cape mountains are very accessible being so close to the city - means unprepared people have the opportunity to get into trouble. The Drakensberg is equally dangerous but the High berg and escarpment are a lot harder to reach for the average unprepared day tripper -much more so with Everest.
 
Gordon_R said:
Edit: Can the mods please change the thread title to reflect the fatalities.
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Even before the fatalities occurred it was odd that the headline of the article was the tourists who are being inconvenienced and even prefixed that as Breaking News.
 
Nerfherder said:
Its really not that hard to walk down Platteklip gorge. Its like a 30 min clamber at most (down).
It baffles me as to why 800 people just stood at the cable station looking like chops....

Sorry to hear about the lives lost on the mountain though.
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Agreed, not a damn would I wait for so many hours if I could just walk down in less than an hour. Way to many fat lazy people.
 
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