Posted on 12/17/2021 9:52:45 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Five hikers were walking along a trail in British Columbia, Canada, when they were alerted that two men had slipped off a rock and fallen into a pool just before the rapids below.
Quick thinking: On Oct. 11, Kuljinder Kinda, a Sikh electrician from Punjab, India, and his friends were hiking in Golden Ears Provincial Park when a group ahead told them to call for help, NBC News reported.
The five friends didn’t have service on their phones and couldn’t find any park personnel for the 10 minutes that they searched. Instead, they came up with the idea to fashion together a makeshift rope out of their turbans and other clothing to pull the men back up.
They weren’t afraid for their own safety, rather they worried about the stranded men.
“In Sikhi, we are taught to help someone in any way we can with anything we have, even our turban,” Kinda said.
The friends made a rope roughly 33 feet long and tugged the other two hikers out of the lower falls.
Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue Manager Robert Laing, who arrived at the scene after the rescue, commended Kinda and his friends for their bravery and said that the two men fell in because they didn’t see the waterfall hazard signs.
“I’ve never heard of anything like this before and it was quite impressive,” Laing told Global News.
“Several people are injured each year as a result of slips or falls,” he added. “It seems about once every one to two years, someone will be swept over the falls and die as a result of their injuries.”
Canada’s Sikh population is not the same as the quaint few you may know in the USA. They follow the same behavioral trends as their population density grows.
sikhning...
Not sure where you're getting your statistics, but there are a lot more than a "few" in the U.S., especially in the western part of the country.
that’s all im sayign too
The qualifier being, how many do you actually know? The population density here still doesn’t compare to Canada’s.
Buddhism has nothing to do with SIKH religion.
Buddhism is about begging, not earning and giving.
SIKH is about self earning and giving.
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