{"id":413846,"date":"2026-01-16T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:26:10","slug":"18-year-old-dies-after-falling-from-cypress-mountain-chairlift-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413846\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old dies after falling from Cypress Mountain chairlift &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old died on <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/cypress-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cypress Mountain<\/a> on Thursday after falling from a chairlift.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>West Vancouver police said emergency services were called at approximately 7:25 p.m. after reports that someone was in medical distress after a fall.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Maple Ridge was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll available evidence points to this being a tragic accident,\u201d Suzanne Birch, spokesperson for the West Vancouver Police Department, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no obvious indications of technical or mechanical issues with the chairlift. As the death appears to be non-suspicious, the investigation is now with the Coroner\u2019s Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Police acknowledge that this would have been distressing for anyone who witnessed the incident and for the family and friends of the young man.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Victim\u2019s services were at the scene on Thursday night and continue to be available to the public. Anyone who was impacted is invited to reach out for support by calling 604-925-7468.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old died on Cypress Mountain on Thursday after falling from a chairlift. West Vancouver police said emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,174006,44],"class_list":["post-413846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cypress-mountain","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}