'I was upside down': Surrey 16-year-old survives 500-foot fall from mountain in Oregon

A high school student from Surrey, B.C., is recovering after surviving a fall of about 150 metres while ascending a popular climbing mountain in Oregon on Monday. Sixteen-year-old Gurbaz Singh had been climbing Mount Hood with a group, and was nearing the summit on the morning of Dec. 30 when he fell. "I was ascending near the Pearly Gates," Singh told CTV News Wednesday, referring to an area with an elevation of about 10,500 feet (3,200 metres). He knew he had to stop his tumble, "because when