Around 17:00 on 27 August 2020 the manager of the Helderberg Nature Reserve called Wilderness Search and Rescue requesting assistance after the wife of a 58 yr old male person had reported him overdue. The man had set out to hike the Sugarbird Route in the reserve and had not returned by 16:00 as had [...]
Hout Bay Mountains At 12h47 on Sunday the 14th of June 2020 Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) was activated after a caller requested assistance for a hiker who had suffered a medical emergency while hiking in the central section of the Table Mountain National Park above Hout Bay. Due to the nature of the incident, [...]
False Bay At 09h19 on Saturday the 30th of May 2020 Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) was activated by Metro Rescue Control after they were contacted by the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) for shoreline assistance. The WSAR Logistical Support crew responded to Sunrise Beach east of Muizenberg along the False Bay coast to scan [...]
Above the wreck of the Boss 400 Hout Bay At 11h49 on Saturday the 7th of September 2019 the Peninsula Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) was activated after a caller reported that their party of four was being stalked by what appeared to be four males. The party which consisted of two local females and [...]
At 05h00 on Saturday the 25th of May 2019, about 130 members of Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) assembled near the top of the Du Toits Kloof mountain pass in order to conduct a simulated search for a helicopter that had crashed while retrieving a maintenance crew who had spent the day at the Telkom [...]
Devil's Peak Table Mountain On Friday the 26th of April 2019 Wilderness Search And Rescue (WSAR) held a training exercise on the eastern side of Table Mountain at Devil's Peak above the City of Cape Town. The objectives of the exercise were to train and maintain the currency of the WSAR rescue climbers, mountaineers, landing [...]
