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Man Falls Off Cliff Trying To Save Wedding Ring2006-04-11A Quebec man who fell down a North Vancouver creek valley's cliff while trying to retrieve his fallen wedding ring managed to survive with only a few bumps and bruises. The Sunday misadventure had Victor Penman, assistant chief for the North Vancouver Fire Rescue Services, offering the following advice: "If something has gone down or someone has gone down that needs to be retrieved, you leave it to the professionals." Montreal iron worker Francois Valotaire watched in shock as his wedding ring fell off his finger and over the suspension bridge that hangs 50 metres above Lynn Creek. "It's not really that tight (on his finger) and he doesn't wear it often," explained his friend Francois St. Laurent to CTV Vancouver, emphasizing with a shrug. "And it fell down." Not wanting to return home without the ring, the Quebec ironworker decided to climb down the steep slippery terrain to look for it -- despite signs and fences warning of the dangers of doing so. "We didn't know if it was on the rock or in the water. So we tried to look around for a place to go down that wasn't too dangerous, too much of a cliff and we found a spot that looked okay," St. Laurent said. But Valotaire lost his footing and fell about 30 metres to the canyon's floor. "He just started slipping, bouncing, hitting everywhere. It was a good two minutes unconscious on the ground," Valotaire's other friend, Brock Levesque, told CTV. When Valotaire didn't reply after his friends yelled to see if he was okay, they called 9-1-1. "There was that big waterfall, so maybe he wasn't hearing us or anything," St. Laurent said. Firefighters were able to rescue Valotaire with a series of pulleys, ropes and manpower, sending someone down in the canyon to help him up.
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