Climbers seriously injured in rockfall on Squamish Chief – BC [Video]

Two climbers have been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a rockfall on the sheer walls of the Stawamus Chief in Squamish, B.C., on Thursday.

Search-and-rescue crews were called to the scene after the climbers, a man and a woman, were struck by falling rocks while ascending a route known as “liquid gold” on a part of the rockface called “the Bulletheads.”

“It appears they were struck by a falling rock while they were climbing,” said Squamish Search and Rescue search manager Mike Teske.

Crews said the male climber went to hang onto a rock that broke away, throwing him into the rockface 40 feet below. The rock then crushed the female climber’s leg.