Table Mountain Cape Town On Monday the 19th of November 2018 at 13h29 the Peninsula Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) was activated by the Western Cape Provincial Emergency Medical Services (EMS) after a call for assistance was received. A visitor to the Table Mountain National Park was experiencing medical complications while hiking up the [...]
Table Mountain Cape Town On Wednesday the 14th of November 2018 at 13h34 WSAR was activated by the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services (EMS) after receiving a call for assistance. A hiker in the Platteklip Gorge route on Table Mountain was unable to proceed any further as a result of fatigue. Our EMS Metro Rescue [...]
Table Mountain Cape Town On Sunday the 11th of November 2018 at 08h57 the Peninsula Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) unit was activated by the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services (EMS) control center after a call for assistance was received. An elderly male was reportedly experiencing medical complications while walking along the Pipe Track which [...]
Safety Alert. Working On Fire (WOF) and other agencies are currently engaged in the containment of the raging wildfire in the mountains between George and Wilderness. The area has been closed off for a number of reasons:- It is very unsafe for members of the public to be in the area. The obvious fire and [...]
Search And Rescue On Friday the 26th of October 2018 at 14h14 the Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) was activated after a call for assistance was received by the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services. Three hikers who were unfamiliar with their route found themselves at a point where they no longer felt safe to proceed [...]
Overberg On Tuesday the 23rd of October 2018 the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services received a call regarding hikers in distress. The position given was in a remote location along the multi day Whale Trail in the De Hoop Nature Reserve Overberg along the coastline to the east of Bredarsdorp. This reserve is managed by [...]
WSAR Safety Alert Summertime is wildfire season in the Western Cape, and with wildfires comes all sorts of hazards, safety risks and danger to the wilderness, property, human as well as wild and domestic animal life. We urge the public to call the relevant authorities as soon as you learn of, or have any information [...]
Safety Awareness As hundreds of hikers prepare for the monthly Lions Head full moon experience, the Wilderness Search And Rescue unit (WSAR) would like to remind visitors to please be cautious. The idea of this experience is attracting an increasing amount of visitors to the Table Mountain National Park as more and more people become [...]
On Saturday the 13th of October 2018 at 12h43 WSAR was activated by the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services for a mountain rescue call on Lion's Head in the northern section of the Table Mountain National Park. Because of the nature of the call the Air Mercy Service rescue helicopter, which is contracted to the [...]
On Thursday the 11th of October 2018 at 19h39, WSAR was activated by the Western Cape Department of Health to respond to an incident that was reported. A hiker who was descending Nursery Ravine in the northern section of the Table Mountain National Park, had lost sight of the path, and was unable to orientate [...]
