Father and daughter rescued from side of treacherous B.C. mountain

Source: CTV News, July 5, 2018 

Search and rescue crews in British Columbia pulled off a daring rescue after a father and his 10-year-old daughter found themselves trapped on the side of a steep mountain.

Officials with the Lions Bay Search and Rescue said a faulty GPS tracker led the pair to a treacherous spot on Mount Harvey, 33 kilometres north of Vancouver, and they could not find a way back.

“This was an unusual situation,” Martin Colwell, manager of Lions Bay Search and Rescue, told CTV Vancouver. “They basically were following a trail from a digital map guide and some of these trails are not properly vetted.”

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