'We are just so thankful': Surrey teen survives fall while climbing Oregon's highest peak

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 suffered a broken femur, which required surgery, after being rescued off of Mount Hood, where he and a group had been nearing the summit on Dec. 30. The rescue took several hours as Singh was at an elevation of about 10,500 feet in the Pearly Gates area of the mountain. At about 1 p.m., rescuers reached Si