{"id":325005,"date":"2025-08-07T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325005\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:05:23","slug":"climber-falls-from-avon-gorge-cliff-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325005\/","title":{"rendered":"Climber falls from Avon Gorge cliff face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four other climbers were left stranded on the side of the cliff<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_4526JPG.jpg\" alt=\"The Portway\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Portway(Image: Google )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A climber has been injured and is in hospital after falling from the cliff face of Avon Gorge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene around 5.20pm yesterday evening, Wednesday, August 6, above the Portway road in the Shirehampton area of Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Rope teams were called to rescue the climber and four others stranded on the side of the cliff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The climber who fell was taken to hospital. The extent of their injuries has not been reported by emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-fire-and-rescue\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon Fire and Rescue<\/a> Service said: &#8220;Rope rescue teams were called at 5.17pm on Wednesday 6 August to an incident near the Portway, Bristol, where a person had fallen while climbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Crews worked with police and ambulance colleagues to rescue four people from the cliff face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;One person was taken to hospital. &#8220;Firefighters from Avon Fire and Rescue Service were supported by South Wales Fire &amp; Rescue Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One witness said: &#8220;Person injured on Portway. Massive emergency services response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four other climbers were left stranded on the side of the cliffThe Portway(Image: Google ) A climber has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,18680,381,748,393,4884,9421,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-avon-fire-and-rescue","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-south-western-ambulance-service","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114987160692719597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}