Rescue workers in North Vancouver returned to a familiar location Wednesday afternoon after a woman was trapped trying to rescue her dog from a cliff ledge.

Carrie Whitworth was walking her black Lab Levi on Quarry Rock in Deep Cove when the animal ran down and got stuck on the ledge.

Quarry Rock in Deep Cove has been the scene of two rescues of dogs and owners in two years.
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Whitworth tried to rescue Levi by clipping several leashes onto a climber's bolt attached to the rock face and climbing down to her dog.

But once she reached the ledge she realized she couldn't get back up, and Levi was getting a little anxious.

"He was getting a little nervous waiting for the help to come, and I was actually starting to get afraid that he was going to go and try to find another way out," said Whitworth after the rescue.

"I was like, OK, I've come this far. I'm not going to grab you. I love you so much but please don't go. So it was all good timing that the help came when it did," she said.
 
Eventually, specially-trained firefighters were lowered to the pair and pulled them to safety.

Two years ago, a boy and his dog were trapped on the same cliff, before they were rescued in a similar fashion.