{"id":29704,"date":"2024-07-12T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=29704"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T08:01:17","slug":"a-mountain-climber-from-the-us-injured-while-descending-mount-kinabalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/07\/12\/a-mountain-climber-from-the-us-injured-while-descending-mount-kinabalu\/","title":{"rendered":"A mountain climber from the US injured while descending Mount Kinabalu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RANAU: A tourist from the United States was injured after slipping and falling at KM6.7 while descending Mount Kinabalu here on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the Sabah Fire and Rescue Department said the 53-year-old man suffered a blow to the lower back, making it difficult for him to walk down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the MoSAR team, along with Park SAR and mountain guides, brought the victim down to Panalaban using a stretcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The 98-kilogramme victim was safely brought down to the Timpohon gate and then handed over to the Ministry of Health for further action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The fire department received the distress call at around 12:00 noon, with a team of six members led by Operations Commander Feranideh Medi arriving at the scene at around 1.00 pm,&#8221; he said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the spokesperson, after ensuring the victim&#8217;s safety, the operation was concluded at 1.40 p.m. yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANAU: A tourist from the United States was injured after slipping and falling at KM6.7 while descending Mount Kinabalu here on Thursday. A spokesperson for the Sabah Fire and Rescue Department said the 53-year-old man suffered a blow to the lower back, making it difficult for him to walk down. He said the MoSAR team, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29708,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions\/29708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}