Woman hurt in fall on to rocks
A Canadian tourist plunged 25 metres on to jagged rocks when a cliff face gave way at Cape Saunders in a remote coastal section of the Otago Peninsula yesterday afternoon.
Caroline Schildwachter lay injured for four hours until rescued by a face rescue team from the Otago Alpine Club. Before being winched up the cliff face she was treated for multiple facial cuts by a doctor and it was believed she had a broken arm.
The accident happened about 5 p.m. while Miss Schildwachter and three companions were sightseeing on the Peninsula. Miss Schildwachter apparently ventured close to the cliff’s edge to get a belter view of a seal colony basking on the rocks below when the bank gave way and sjhe plunged over the side.
A member of the party sprinted to the nearby home of a farmer, Mr Rod McKay, who . telephoned the police at Portobello. An ambulance, two fire engines and 10 members of the Alpine Club went to the scene.
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Press, 21 December 1978, Page 6
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