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Paramedic Miles Randell still thinks about what he could have done for a friend had he been cleared to climb a mountain on a snowy January day in 2014.

Randell was working as a ground ambulance paramedic when a call came in about a man in cardiac arrest on North Vancouver’s Mount Seymour.

Randell would learn it was his friend of more than 20 years, Tim Jones .

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But Randell says the provincial ambulance service’s risk-mitigation policy at the time meant that he and his colleagues weren’t allowed to go up the mountain that night.

The paramedics tried to resuscitate him, but Randell