Challenging rescue required to pull Vancouver woman from south Okanagan cave

PENTICTON — A Vancouver woman is recovering in hospital in Kelowna after falling more than a dozen metres into a cave in the south Okanagan.
Penticton and District Search and Rescue spokesman Randy Brown says the 50-year-old victim suffered severe head and upper body injuries in the Monday afternoon fall.
He says the rescue took seven hours to complete and involved crews from his organization, the RCMP, Penticton firefighters and members of the Alberta/British Columbia Cave Rescue Service.