{"id":37060,"date":"2023-07-14T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&#038;p=37060"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:59:52","slug":"emergency-rescue-paparoa-track-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/survivor-stories\/emergency-rescue-paparoa-track-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"ResQLink 400 Saves Hiker atop New Zealand&#8217;s Paparoa Mountain Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m one of a group of 4 Rotarian\u2019s in over 70 years who have completed 45 tramps\/hikes in the southern half of New Zealand since 2003. This tramp, in late May 2023, was on the recently opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/parks-and-recreation\/places-to-go\/west-coast\/places\/paparoa-national-park\/things-to-do\/tracks\/paparoa-track\/\">Paparoa Track<\/a> on New Zealand\u2019s West Coast between Greymouth &amp; Punakaiki. This is a four day hike in terrain ranging from rainforest to exposed ridgetops at 1,000m.<\/p>\n<p>The west coast is open to the Tasman sea so it often gets wild weather. We had rain, winds, &amp; low clouds early morning on the 31<sup>st<\/sup> of May. I went out of the hut in these wet &amp; windy conditions and fell on the stairs, breaking 2 ribs, damaging my shoulder blade and rotator cuff.<\/p>\n<p>Being in severe pain, and being a 2-day walk away from the end of the track, I set off my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/products\/resqlink-400\/\">ResQLink 400 PLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team sent the West Coast Rescue Helicopter, with a paramedic and 2 Search &amp; Rescue personnel on board, to get me.\u00a0However, because of the clouds, they had to drop them 3 hours from the hut. The paramedic was able to assess my condition and provide pain relief. Due to the worsening conditions, the Helicopter could not evacuate me, so I took an escape route, and the Police picked me up to take me to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time we have had to set off the beacon, so we are truly thankful that it effectively got assistance to me in a very rugged environment.<\/p>\n<p>I have included a photo of us on the track &amp; of a nurse who was in the hut putting me in a sling. Also attached a photo of me on the Milford Track in 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had rain, winds, &#038; low clouds early morning on the 31st of May. I went out of the hut in these wet &#038; windy conditions and fell on the stairs, breaking 2 ribs, damaging my shoulder blade and rotator cuff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143730,"featured_media":37059,"template":"","survivor-category":[17],"terrain":[21],"survivor-event":[2612],"survivor-cause":[123],"survivor-rescue":[139],"class_list":["post-37060","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-hiking","terrain-mountain","survivor-event-wind","survivor-cause-medical-emergency","survivor-rescue-local-search-and-rescue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/37060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=37060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}