Two climbers rescued from Australia’s most notorious mountain, Mt Tibrogargan

Rescue crews are in the process of helping two climbers down Australia's most notorious mountain after they spent the night stuck on a tiny ledge.

Mount Tibrogargan in the Glass House Mountains.

Two climbers are making their way down the side of Mount Tibrogargan, north of Brisbane, after spending the night perched on a rocky ledge waiting to be rescued.

Four crews from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services arrived at the notorious mountain early this morning after the two stuck climbers called for help around 1.30am.

A QFES spokeswoman confirmed the rescue teams had started the process of helping the climbers down the side of the mountain.

Mount Tibrogargan, part of Queensland’s Glass House Mountains, is one of the country’s most notorious for rescues.

In September, a 22-year-old Sunshine Coast man fell to his death while bushwalking on Mount Tibrogargan.

And in July, another Sunshine Coast local, 23-year-old Sarah Wylie, was rescued after she slipped on a loose rock and fell on to a sharp tree stump, leaving a deep gash in her hand.

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Mount Tibrogargan in the Glass House Mountains.

Earlier this year, news.com.au spoke with Greg Toman, a member of Queensland Fire Emergency Service’s Remote Mountain Rescue crew.

Mr Toman is regularly part of the teams hiking up Mt Tibrogargan and said getting people safely down the mountain was never easy.

“All the rescues are tricky ones and they’re all strenuous because we have to carry our pack and all our gear. It’s even harder stretchering people down, the rescues are tricky. There’s nothing glamorous about it,” Mr Toman said.

The craggy peaks are also listed as a landscape of national significance and the views from Tibrogargan and Beerwah are described as two of the state’s most beautiful lookouts.

In 2017, the Remote Mountain Rescue team was involved in 30 individual rescues and assisted 60 people.

A helicopter, which can cost thousands of dollars to run, was required 11 times.

“Bad things happen when people don’t do their homework,” Mr Toman said.

“There’s plenty of people heading to the mountain to do silly stuff and often it’s in the middle of the night or at dark. There’s a big difference between rock climbers who read the guidebook and are completely prepared but things just accidentally go wrong for them to boofheads that head out there purely to be stupid.”

Authorities tried closing Tibrogargan after a number of fatal accidents and Beerwah was also closed from 2009 to 2015 in a bid to stop people from hurting themselves.

In January 2008, Brisbane teenager Annabel Choy died after she fell 150 metres from Tibrogargan when part of the cliff she was climbing gave way, and in January 2016, a person died after they fell 250 metres from the mountain.