An injured snowmobiler was rescued from the Nickel Plate Lake area near Apex Mountain, Thursday evening.

Penticton Search and Rescue was called in at 6:15 p.m. to extract the man.

PENSAR manager Ron Muir says emergency health services requested help to assist the injured sledder from the recreational area.

Fortunately for the sledder, there was an off-duty paramedic nearby who helped him while the rescue team was mobilizing.

“Recognizing that there was limited remaining daylight to fly and perform the rescue, pilot Derek Robinson at Eclipse Helicopters did an extraordinary job prepping the helicopter for a hasty extraction with the SAR team,” said Muir.

“We were on scene with the subject within 50 minutes, and the entire rescue was completed, with the subject brought down via helicopter and transferred to a waiting ambulance at the airport in less than one and a half hours from initial callout.”

This was PENSAR’s second callout in less than a week requiring members and the Eclipse/helicopter extraction team.

Seventeen PENSAR members responded to the callout.

There is no word on the condition of the man or his injuries