{"id":913823,"date":"2022-01-06T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/missing-hiker-found-dead-on-table-mountain\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:25:18","slug":"missing-hiker-found-dead-on-table-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/missing-hiker-found-dead-on-table-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing hiker found dead on Table Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f636ba01-ddea-5fc9-b925-f1e2ba5b612c&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x315&#038;resize=3000x1685.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town \u2013 The body of a  hiker who went missing yesterday, has been found on Table Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) spokesperson Johan Marais a search operation was conducted in the  Yellowstone Gorge, via Skywalk, towards Platteklip Gorge where the body was discovered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Marais said operations are under way to recover the body and the provincial health department has stepped in to assist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWSAR assisted by the helicopter contracted by the Department of Health, is busy with the recovery of the body on Table Mountain of a person who went missing yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circumstances of his death cannot be commented on as it is the subject of a police investigation. SAPS is also on scene,\u201d Marais said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publish. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes after rescue teams had their hands full, responding to several call outs last month. In one of the incidents, a woman was injured after she fell in Fountain Traverse. He said the woman was airlifted to hospital after she was stabilised at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2013 The body of a hiker who went missing yesterday, has been found on Table Mountain. According to the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) spokesperson Johan Marais a search operation was conducted in the Yellowstone Gorge, via Skywalk, towards Platteklip Gorge where the body was discovered. Marais said operations are under way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}