{"id":514070,"date":"2026-01-13T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:22:10","slug":"rock-climber-dies-in-fall-at-sand-river-buckland-in-tasmanias-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514070\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock climber dies in fall at Sand River, Buckland, in Tasmania&#8217;s south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A rock climber has died after he fell 20 metres from a cliff in Tasmania&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 31-year-old French national, who was living in Victoria, had been climbing with a friend in the Sand River Conservation Area at Buckland on Tuesday when he fell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to the scene about 1:20pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man was flown by rescue helicopter to the Royal Hobart Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He died a short time later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say their thoughts are with the man&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Second cliff fall death at reserve in five years<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rocky cliffs in bushland.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f4a8dfe5c7cea66ccce453b899fc7728.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">A girl walking along the edge of a cliff died in the area in 2021. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In 2021, an 11-year-old Victorian girl died when she fell from a cliff at Sand River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The girl was on a walking and rock-climbing expedition with her siblings when she fell more than 10 metres to her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">At the time, police said the girl was walking along the edge and lost her footing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rock climber has died after he fell 20 metres from a cliff in Tasmania&#8217;s south-east. The 31-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":514071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,229614,112133,4446,16949,50,18944,229615],"class_list":{"0":"post-514070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-buckland","10":"tag-cliff","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-fall","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-rock-climbing","15":"tag-sand-river"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115890130790221386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}