CALGARY – A hiker who became lost while travelling in a southern Alberta park was found by search and rescue crews on Thursday.
RCMP said the hiker had been travelling on foot in the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, near Elkwater, Alta. when she was reported missing by family at around noon.
Officials launched a search and rescue operation and were able to locate the woman near Horseshoe Canyon at about 3:30 p.m.
RCMP said the hiker, a 40-year-old Calgary woman, had spent the previous night in the park without shoes, her glasses or proper seasonal clothing. Temperatures overnight in the park had reached a low of -3 °C.
She was taken to the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital in stable condition to be treated for possible hypothermia and frostbite to her feet.
The Village of Elkwater is located near the Alberta/Saskatchewan border about 70 kilometres southeast of Medicine Hat and about 360 kilometres southeast of Calgary.
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