Heavy rains over the weekend made for a busy weekend for Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) when a group of hikers needed to be saved from a river gorge in the Western Cape.
The hikers had started their hike on Sunday, 19 March, on the Witels hike, a favourite wilderness ‘kloofing’ hike-and-swim between Worcester and Ceres where hikers swim, wade and hike down the canyon and exit below Michell’s Pass.According to their plans, they were due to exit the canyon on Thursday.
WSAR received a call for assistance on Saturday afternoon, and a multi-disciplinary team of 22 rescuers was dispatched to locate and rescue the stranded hikers. At first light on Sunday morning, a group of more than 30 rescuers readied themselves before a small team was flown into the kloof to locate the stranded group of hikers.At the same time, SAPS WPDS and SAPS K9 SAR located and safely brought the two hikers back across the swollen Breede River in inflatable crafts.
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