A Vancouver woman is recovering in hospital with a broken leg after falling 18 metres down a mountainside near Squamish.

36-year-old Margaux Cohen, an avid hiker who documents her adventures on social media , had just finished summiting Tricouni Peak with her friend Max, her dog Zion and her friend’s cousin before the incident happened.

The group was climbing down from the peak when they found themselves struggling to find the trail.

“We saw that the trail was just across a little wall,” she told Global News from her hospital bed at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.

“We assessed the situation. The wall, can we down-climb it? Is it hard or anything? We decided that it was a pretty easy down-climb compared to things I usually do.”

However, Cohen’s dog slipped off a ledge while t

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