Woman dies after falling off Rustenburg mountain
Emergency services were called out on Friday night after the 27-year-old apparently slipped and fell several metres.
A 27-year-old woman has died after falling from a mountain in Rustenburg, North West.
Emergency services were called out to the scene by the woman's friends who say she "slipped and fell several metres".
ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak says due to the low visibility paramedics had to use infrared cameras to find the woman.
"After some time, they managed to find her and used rope equipment to abseil to her location," explains Vermaak. "Sadly, she showed no signs of life and was declared dead on the scene."
Due to the conditions, emergency services only managed to retrieve her body on Saturday morning.
"Rescuers had to hoist her body back up the mountain as they could not access the slope from the bottom," says Vermaak.
Authorities were also on scene to determine what happened.