Cape Town - A hiker has died after falling on Lion's Head in
Cape Town on Wednesday morning.
Table Mountain National Park spokesperson Merle Collins
confirmed to News24 that a 25-year-old local man had died.
It is believed that he was hiking with his fiancée and 5-year-old
son at the time.
"Apparently he stood on the edge of the footpath and
the rock gave way," Collins said.
According to Collins, the man's fiancée was taken for trauma
counselling.
Sapa reported that the body of the man was airlifted off a
ledge by Western Cape Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
"Hikers alerted EMS to a body laying on one of the
ledges of Lion's Head just before 07:00 this morning," EMS spokesperson
Robert Daniels said.
"The body of a 25-year old male was airlifted by Air
Mercy Services to the base of the mountain from where it was further
transported by EMS."
Daniels said EMS did not know the man's identity.
A number of Capetonians took to Twitter after noticing helicopters circling the iconic mountain.
