A B.C. judge has largely granted a man’s request to broaden the scope of his claim against a B.C. mountain-guiding service after a near fatal rock-climbing accident in the Glacier National Park.

Ian Craig Manson had filed an initial statement of claim after a mountaineering accident on July 15, 2021. At the time, the 63-year-old man from Whistler had hired Revelstoke Alpine School Inc. and its owner, Jeffrey Adam Mitchell, to guide him on a three-day ascent of Mount Rogers, according to the lawsuit.

That day, the lawsuit claims the two men were perched on the 3,169-metre massif in Selkirk National Park—Mitchell on one rock ledge, belaying Manson 10 metres below on another.

Belaying is a technique that acts as a safety net when climbing. The climber is attached to one end of the rope whi

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