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Tourist falls 50 metres down Mount Ainslie

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ACT Fire & Rescue and ACT Paramedics have rescued a boy who fell at Mt Ainslie.

The boy and his family are in Canberra from Victoria on holiday.

This is the first day of their vacation and Mt Ainslie is the first place they visited.

The boy was going down Mt Ainslie and slipped, falling 50 to 60 metres.

Firefighters and Paramedics worked together to get the boy on to a stretcher, ropes were attached and he was pulled up to the top where the ambulance was.

He has facial injuries and has been taken to The Canberra Hospital in a stable condition.

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One Response to Tourist falls 50 metres down Mount Ainslie

luxxikins says: 29 September 2015 at 7:43 pm

I’m trying to picture a place on Mt Ainslie where you could fall 50 metres. There’s a rock face next to the top of the path – but your fall would be broken by shrubs well before 50 metres. I hope they don’t over-engineer the path as a result – the top of Mt Ainslie is too concreted and unnatural already …

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