{"id":657090,"date":"2026-03-15T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/657090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:25:24","slug":"teenager-dies-and-another-is-critically-injured-after-falling-from-mount-beerwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/657090\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies and another is critically injured after falling from Mount Beerwah"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old woman has died and another teenager has been critically injured after falling while hiking in the Glasshouse Mountains on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews were called to Mount Beerwah at about 10:30am on Sunday after reports that the pair had fallen a substantial distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Paramedics and rescue teams were called to Mount Beerwah on Sunday morning after two people fell while climbing. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The woman from Brisbane was assessed with life-threatening injuries and was later pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old man, also from Brisbane, was flown to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/p>\n

Paramedics and rescue teams were called to Mount Beerwah in the Glasshouse Mountains this morning.
\n\u00a0 (ABC News: Josh Dye)<\/p>\n

The mountain had been closed to hikers due to adverse weather.<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Kylie McLellan said the two climbers plunged between 50 and 100 metres while descending the mountain during “difficult” conditions.<\/p>\n

“The falls occurred as a result of some light rain that made the terrain quite slippery,” she said.<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant McLellan said it was “an extraordinarily sad and tragic accident”.<\/p>\n

“A group of young people hiking, partaking in some healthy activities \u2026 it’s an absolute tragedy,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Our hearts go out to their family and friends.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She said the incident involved six climbers across two separate groups.<\/p>\n

“There was the deceased and her sister and her sister’s boyfriend in one group, then another group separate to that who rendered first aid,” she said.<\/p>\n

The four other people involved in the incident were also rescued from the mountain but suffered no injuries.<\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/p>\n

Queensland Ambulance Service says a group of hikers were climbing the mountain when the pair fell a “substantial” distance.\u00a0 (ABC News: Josh Dye)<\/p>\n

The complex rescue operation involved QFES mountain rescue and remote rescue teams, who navigated difficult terrain and adverse weather conditions to reach the pair.<\/p>\n

The mountain was closed between March 9-15 due to weather and was expected to reopen on Monday.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police at the scene in the Glasshouse Mountains. (ABC News: Josh Dye)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old woman has died and another teenager has been critically injured after falling while hiking in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":657091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,278445,278444,50,4747,278446],"class_list":{"0":"post-657090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-glasshouse-mountains","10":"tag-mount-beerwah","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rescue","13":"tag-teen-dies-while-climbing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116232475722433591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657090","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=657090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}