{"id":872488,"date":"2026-08-26T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:02:09","slug":"b-c-climber-stung-by-wasps-100-times-airlifted-to-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872488\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. climber stung by wasps 100 times airlifted to safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LIONS BAY \u2014 A climber in British Columbia was rescued by helicopter after being stung more than 100 times by wasps in backcountry north of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lions Bay Search and Rescue says in a social media post on Tuesday that the female climber was on Redoubt Wall near Loggers Creek when she encountered the insects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A ground team was sent to the scene with emergency medical supplies in case of a \u201cserious systemic reaction\u201d to the stings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lions Bay Search and Rescue says they requested a helicopter extraction by North Shore Rescue as it was clear the climber would not be able to hike out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rescuers were dropped to the site to help airlift the climber through heavy tree canopy, and they were transferred to BC Emergency Health Services for care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Redoubt Wall is about 40 kilometres north of Vancouver along the Sea to Sky Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is another reminder that wasp encounters can become a serious backcountry medical emergency very quickly, particularly when someone receives a large number of stings,\u201d Lions Bay Search and Rescue says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 26, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIONS BAY \u2014 A climber in British Columbia was rescued by helicopter after being stung more than 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,83,47,66,323],"class_list":["post-872488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disaster","tag-national","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872488","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=872488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}