Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief – BC [Video]

There were some terrifying moments for a BASE jumper in Squamish, B.C., on Wednesday, who was left dangling from her parachute on the face of the Stawamus Chief.

Squamish Search and Rescue was called to the popular climbing and recreation area after someone reported the jumper trapped on the rock face just below the First Peak.

“(She) was suspended about 100 metres below her takeoff point,” Squamish Search and Rescue search manager Mike Teske explained.

“She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.”

After flying to the top to assess the situation, Teske said crews determined they couldn’t perform a helicopter rescue due to the risk the aircraft’s downwash could blow the woman from her precarious position.

That meant gearing up for a conventional rope rescue instead, an operation that ultimately involved 32 Search-and-Rescue volunteers.