Crown Mountain

A 16-year-old boy was rescued from a Canadian mountain cliff last weekend after using an AI assistant to plan his route.

North Shore Rescue received a call on Saturday, October 3rd, about a hiker identified by The New York Times as Bryce Vincent, I believe it is, Gryluk, stuck on the cliff of Crown Mountain in British Columbia.

It turns out that this hiker had somehow got far off the Crown hiking route, we are unclear exactly how or where, and became stranded on a climbing route known as the Widow Maker, at the base of its final head wall, wrote the group, who had to use a helicopter to reach him.

Even then, it was too difficult for the chopper to bring the rescuers to the hiker's precise location, so the rescue techs had to land above him and be laid down.

Uh, there, the num- or the member established additional protection and was able to move the subject to a suitable extraction point, according to the group.

In an interview with North Shore News, Paul Markey, who is search manager for North Shore Rescue- Said the teen began his day on Grouse Mountain with the goal of trekking up Crown Mountain, a difficult hike that takes about seven to eight hours to complete.

The teen hiker used Claude AI.

Claude seems like just a bad deal to me.

Yeah, what are you doing?

Now, a 16-year-old boy, well, this guy, this kid's 16, and he had to be rescued from the base of this big, humongous rock formation ironically named Widowmaker on British Columbia's Crown Mountain.

He took a gondola up 4,000 feet to the top of Grouse Mountain, and then Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot took him down the trail, and then he, it took him off the trail and got him lost.

He got stuck on the side of the mountain, and he couldn't go down and he couldn't get back up, so he finally had to call for help.

So on episode 237, when we had, uh, Katie Henderson on the show to talk about her ongoing recovery, which is, uh, come a hell of a long way, we talked about the three novice climbers who were stranded on Mount Shasta in California after they apparently relied entirely on an AI chatbot to plan their trek.

Well, apparently, in the past few weeks, there was also this 16-year-old hiker rescued by helicopter from British Columbia's Crown Mountain after following what turned out to be a dangerous route generated by an AI chatbot.

The erroneous directions led him to this steep and technical widow maker climbing area, prompting officials to issue warnings against relying on infar- artificial intelligence for backcountry navigation.

Uh, when the teenager realized he was trapped at the base of the vertical head wall of the widow maker, he called for help using his cell phone just before 3:30 in the afternoon.

This young man used artificial intelligence to plan his hiking route, and he was hoisted back to safety by the North Shore Rescue volunteers because he was stuck on a mountain cliff.

Rescue crews received an emergency call around 3.30 p.m. after this 16-year-old hiker who was stranded on a cliff on Crown Mountain.

I had to look up Crown Mountain because it doesn't say in the article where this is.

It's in Vancouver, Canada, apparently.

Crown Mountain.

Drinking Crown Royal on Crown Mountain.

Hi, I'm Bart, an avid hiker and outdoorsman.

And I don't know about you, but whenever I hike Crown Mountain, I can't do so without my Crown Royal in my backpack.

He's 16 years old.

He had to be rescued off a cliff on Crown Mountain Saturday after an AI-generated route led him to dangerous terrain.

The teen left Grouse Mountain at 8:00 AM following a route that the AI suggested through a gully.

Instead, it directed him onto a steep technical rock climbing terrain where he became trapped.