{"id":4523,"date":"2026-11-08T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:20:43","slug":"youth-dies-after-rope-swing-above-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/youth-dies-after-rope-swing-above-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth dies after rope swing above cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 9 May 1996, 18 year-old Simon Lubranski went from St Marys to East Blaxland to have some fun with some old school mates. They found an old rope tied to a gum tree above a 15m high cliff. One of his mates swung on the rope over the ledge three times, then it was Simon&#8217;s turn to try the dangerous stunt. On his first swing, the rope broke and Simon fell head first into a large rock at the bottom of the cliff. One of his mates ran to a nearby house in Bowaga Place to get help. Springwood and Penrith ambulances, along with Careflight and Springwood Police and Scientific Squad attended.\u00a0 Theys tried desperately to keep Simon alive, but sadly, 40 minutes later, Simon was dead. His body was taken to Nepean Hospital<br \/>\n(BMG 15\/5\/1996)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4524\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/youth-dies-after-rope-swing-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his first swing, the rope broke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}