{"id":913865,"date":"2022-01-06T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/table-mountain-hiker-fell-to-his-death-says-saps\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T08:31:11","slug":"table-mountain-hiker-fell-to-his-death-says-saps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/table-mountain-hiker-fell-to-his-death-says-saps\/","title":{"rendered":"Table Mountain hiker fell to his death, says SAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPE TOWN – The South African Police Service (SAPS) confirmed the death of a hiker on Table Mountain and said the man fell to his death on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

All rescue services were dispatched to locate the missing hiker, who has now been identified as a 53-year-old man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to provincial police spokesperson, Captain Frederick van Wyk, hikers trailing along the mountain found the personal belongings of the man and alerted authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body of a 53-year-old male was recovered this morning on Table Mountain after he fell to his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to reports, a search was conducted yesterday (Wednesday) at about 5pm after hikers found belongings of the deceased on the mountain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey alerted authorities after accessing details on a cellular telephone found with the belongings,\u201d van Wyk said.<\/p>\n

He said at about 7pm, the missing man\u2019s body was discovered near a ravine by rescuers conducting a search on foot.<\/p>\n

However, due to the terrain and windy conditions, the body could only be retrieved on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It remains unclear what the circumstances of the fall were.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body was retrieved by a metro rescue team with the help of the Skymed helicopter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn inquest docket was opened by Cape Town Central SAPS detectives for further investigation,\u201d van Wyk added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAPE TOWN – The South African Police Service (SAPS) confirmed the death of a hiker on Table Mountain and said the man fell to his death on Wednesday. All rescue services were dispatched to locate the missing hiker, who has now been identified as a 53-year-old man. According to provincial police spokesperson, Captain Frederick van […]<\/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-913865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913865","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=913865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}