Busy Weekend For Mountain Rescuers
Mountain rescue teams called out in Scotland and North Wales.
Posted: 15 September 2008
by Jon
Two mountain rescues
this weekend gone, one on Ben
Nevis when a walker taking part in a Three Peaks charity
challenge event tripped and knocked her head leaving her unconcious,
the other on Snowdon where a climber was helicoptered out after a fall
on Snowdon.
The Ben Nevis incident occurred on Saturday night when the woman,
reportedly tripped and fell, at an altitude of around 1500 metres.
Unluckily she hit her head, was knocked unconcious and stretchered off
by the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team and taken to hospital for
observation.
The team also assisted another charity walker some 500 feet higher up
the mountain and in the same area there were two helicopter rescues,
one on Ben Nevis and one in Glencoe when a man fell from the Aonach
Eagach ridge. Full details at www.pressandjournal.co.uk.
The Snowdon incident happened when a climber from London reportedly
fell around 50 feet on Lliwedd injuring his leg. Both he and his
climbing partner were airlifted off by a helicopter from RAF Valley.
Full details at news.bbc.co.uk.
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