B.C. climber was 'catapulted into the air,' he says in lawsuit against mountain guide group
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A B.C. man is suing a group of guides following what his lawyers call a 'near-fatal incident' during a guided mountaineering trip.
A B.C. man is suing a group of guides following what his lawyers call a "near-fatal incident" during a guided mountaineering trip.
Ian Manson is taking both the guide he hired through Revelstoke Alpine School Inc. and the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides to court over what happened on a trip in July.
In a news release, his legal team outlines what its 63-year-old client says happened. CTV News reached out to the ACMG for its side of the story, but the association said it would not be commenting, as the matter is before the courts.
CTV News has also reached out to Revelstoke Alpine School for comment, and this article will be updated with its response.
None of the allegations has been proven in court, and the defendants have not yet filed a response.
Represented by MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP, Manson said through his lawyers that he was being belayed up the face of a mountain in B.C.'s Glacier National Park at an elevation of about 3,000 metres, when his guide's actions caused a rock to fall.
Manson said the guide was testing the stability of a "fridge-sized rock" on Mount Rogers, which then fell towards the climber.
