{"id":831569,"date":"2026-07-28T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:50:14","slug":"calgary-man-dead-after-fall-on-mount-temple-scramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831569\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary man dead after fall on Mount Temple scramble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 A 65-year-old Calgary man is dead following a fall on the Mount Temple scrambling route in Banff National Park last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parks Canada says visitor safety specialists responded to a report after the man slipped and fell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had been hiking with a group of people last Saturday who were able to call for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parks Canada says staff arrived at the site via helicopter and deployed a heli-sling to lift him to a staging area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Mount Temple scramble is a challenging, moderate alpine route featuring more than 1,700 metres of elevation gain, steep loose scree, and an exposed rock crux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cParks Canada would like to express their condolences to the family for this loss,\u201d said Justin Brisbane, public relations and communications officer for Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay Field Unit.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 A 65-year-old Calgary man is dead following a fall on the Mount Temple scrambling route in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,17128],"class_list":["post-831569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-prairies-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831569","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=831569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}