Ontario Teen, Due to Start at UBC, Dies in Fall Off 50-metre Cliff in Metro Vancouver

Fences block the access to the Lynn Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, B.C., on Sept. 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

A 17-year-old from Ontario who was about to start his studies at the University of British Columbia is dead after climbing over a fence and falling off a cliff in a popular Metro Vancouver park.

North Vancouver assistant fire chief Dwayne Derban said the boy was with three friends in an off-trail area of Lynn Canyon Park when it happened Sunday afternoon.