A 60-year-old man is dead following an apparent heart attack on the Grouse Grind.
The man had made it to the 14th trail marker, or roughly one third of the way up, when he collapsed around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services, North Vancouver RCMP, Metro Vancouver staff and BC Ambulance Service all responded and an off-duty physician did CPR but the man but was pronounced dead at the scene. North Shore Rescue was flying to the scene with another doctor and nurse at the time. The rescue volunteers then long-lined the body out to their Capilano Gate search and rescue station where it was turned over to the B.C. Coroners Service, which is now in charge of investigating the death.
It's the second time this summer a man in his 60s has died on “Mother Nature's StairMaster.” There have been eight deaths on the trail since 2011, according to the coroner, all of them involving men age 50 to 70.
