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 [...]
Back Table. On Saturday the 20th of October 2018 at 19h36 WSAR was activated by the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for an overdue hiker in the northern section of Table Mountain National Park. It was reported that the hiker was last seen at approximately 13h00 before splitting up from the party which had [...]
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 [...]
