The Sunshine Coast-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew winched an injured man to safety yesterday after he fell 30 metres while rock climbing.
It’s believed the man in his 50s was climbing on Mount Beerwah in the Glass House Mountains when he slipped.
The LifeFlight rescue helicopter crew was tasked at 3pm and was met on scene by Queensland Fire Department officers and local Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) paramedics.
A QAS flight paramedic and LifeFlight rescue crewman were winched down to the patient where he was stabilised.
He was escort-winched on a stretcher into the helicopter alongside the flight paramedic.
The man was flown to Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital with head and spinal injuries for further treatment.
