Woman rescued off B.C. glacier calls those who braved smoky conditions ‘superheroes’
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KASLO, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — One of the four hikers plucked off a glacier in British Columbia’s West Kootenay region as wildfires burned around them says the search and rescue team members who brought them home were like “superheroes”
Laurence Desjardins says the weather changed rapidly for the experienced group who spent last Wednesday night on the Macbeth Ice Fields listening to the winds howl and watching ash fall, before calling for help on Thursday.
Mark Jennings-Bates, with the Kaslo Search and Rescue, says a skilled helicopter pilot was able to navigate the winds and thick smoke to rescue the hikers from the side of an alpine lake.
He says the four were well prepared and used an iPhone’s emergency SOS feature to provide rescuers with their precise location.
