{"id":126426,"date":"2026-09-05T22:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/126426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:11:29","slug":"athletics-canada-says-missing-mountaineer-was-climbing-near-switzerland-italy-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/126426\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics Canada says missing mountaineer was climbing near Switzerland-Italy border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SQUAMISH \u2014 Athletics Canada says one of its members went missing while attempting to break a mountain-running record in the Alps along the Switzerland-Italy border.<\/p>\n<p>The national sport governing body says Kalie McCrystal was last seen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Canada says in a statement the skyrunner and mountaineer was climbing Italy\u2019s Matterhorn, a roughly 4,481-metre-tall mountain that\u2019s horn-shaped peak also overlooks Zermatt, a town in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The statement says McCrystal has many years of experience in technical and high-altitude environments, and has climbed the Matterhorn before.<\/p>\n<p>The statement does not give details on the record she was trying to break, and says her family is working with mountain rescue services.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Canada\u2019s website lists the hometown of an athlete with McCrystal\u2019s name as Squamish, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788646289_912_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SQUAMISH \u2014 Athletics Canada says one of its members went missing while attempting to break a mountain-running record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,457,68,11083,307],"class_list":["post-126426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-environment","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117220729615623646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}