emergency dispatchers were surprised to get a call from the Polish Embassy in Ottawa, urging them to send rescuers to a mountain in the B.C. Robson Valley Search and Rescue manager Dale Mason says the pair were climbing Whitehorn Mountain, near Mt. Polish Embassy kept informedThe call was routed through the Polish Embassy in Canada, and then to B.C. before BCEHS could send an air ambulance and the Robson Valley SAR team could help rescue the pair from steep terrain. The climbers, whose names have not been released, were flown to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops with serious injuries.

Source: CBC News April 25, 2018 00:11 UTC