On a very windy Sunday morning New Zealand rock climber Richard Mills (36) with his climbing buddy tackled one of more than a dozen cliff ‘walls’ off Sublime Point, Leura. But a rock (about 30cm across) dislodged and fell on Mill’s head. His buddy quickly called emergency services and local Blue Mountains Police Rescue from Katoomba and NSW Ambulance Special […]
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Whilst on a tour showcasing the Blue Mountains classic vistas on 2nd May 2022, our tour guest group at iconic Echo Point happen-chanced upon a rescue operation. There was a camera drone performing with his drone ‘pilot’ and all! It was a spectacle on a perfect clear sky day with no wind and total visibility to the horizon. What better […]
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Yesterday the New South Wales Parks Service decided to blanketly close the entire Blue Mountains National Park of some 2690 km2 indefinitely. The huge area extends pretty much from Bilpin to Kanangra and from Warragamba Dam to Mount Victoria. The reason for the blacket closure is simply the likelihood of well, rain. What? Rain in the Blue Mountains? Who would […]
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Wollangambe Canyon might need some more warning signage, if only people would heed the advice. Two weeks after the so-called “whirlpool” tragedy on Saturday 2nd January, when two women drowned on a bushwalking club lilo trip, two more lilo tourists got themselves lost in the same canyon and had to be rescued. This time they were more downstream in what […]
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Two bushwalkers decided to take a hike down in the Jamison Valley and en route that it would be fun to climb up Vera Falls. It was Monday 7th October 2019 on a Labour Day holiday long weekend. The two females aged 51 and 52 chose to hike the Hippocrene Falls circuit track from The Conservation Hut and return […]
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Around midday on Thursday, 28th July in 2016 a male visitor (32) on a day trip to the Blue Mountains decided to set off hiking from the Conservation Hut at Wentworth Falls into the remote Jamison Valley during the depth of winter. While hiking, he reportedly injured his ankle, possibly along one of the lower Jamison Valley tracks such as […]
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