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Mountain rescue teams were tasked with assisting police in a multi-day search operation for a high-risk missing person in North Devon. The search concluded successfully on the second day when the individual was located within the search area and subsequently evacuated by medical services.
Outcome: Person found alive
Two young walkers became lost on Ben Vane and called for mountain rescue at 7:30pm with their phone battery nearly depleted. The rescue team used a PhoneFind text message to locate their grid reference and brought them safely back by 12:30am. The team has since issued guidance on phone battery management and navigation precautions for hill walkers.
Outcome: located and escorted safely back
A hiker fell near the summit of Ben Cruachan in Argyll and Bute on the evening of 12 September, sustaining multiple fractures. Oban Mountain Rescue team located the casualty and prepared them for evacuation, and they were winched aboard a Coastguard helicopter as daylight faded.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by helicopter winch
Outcome: Discharged to family care
A walker fell and sustained a head injury while descending Helvellyn via the Hole in the Wall path on Monday evening. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team attended and provided initial treatment; the casualty was carried to a stretcher and subsequently taken to hospital by his partner.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by stretcher and taken to hospital
A male mountain biker suffered suspected serious injuries in a crash at Bike Park Wales near Merthyr Tydfil. Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team attended and worked with park staff, team medics, and Welsh Ambulance Services to treat and evacuate the casualty by stretcher.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by stretcher to ambulance
A mountain rescue team was called to Ben Nevis after an exhausted dog refused to continue walking. The dogs were eventually secured to a stretcher and safely transported back down the mountain where it could rest.
Outcome: Safe return to lower ground
A man suffered suspected broken legs and spinal injuries after jumping from Sgwd Gladys waterfall near Pontneddfechan in the Brecon Beacons on 13 August 2022. The incident required assistance from two mountain rescue teams and was attended by helicopter crews from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service. The casualty was immobilised in a vacuum mattress and winched to a rescue helicopter before being transported to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for treatment.
Outcome: casualty immobilised and winched to rescue helicopter, transported to University Hospital of Wales Cardiff
Lochaber Mountain Rescue was called to Ben Nevis to assist a Turkish Akbash dog with sore paws that had refused to continue descending. A stretcher party met the dog's owners halfway down the mountain and carried the animal to safety in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Outcome: dog safely brought down the mountain by stretcher
A male suffered suspected broken legs and a possible spinal injury after jumping from a waterfall at Sgwd Gwladus in the Brecon Beacons. He was airlifted to hospital by Coastguard rescue helicopter with assistance from Central and Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Teams.
Outcome: airlifted to hospital by Coastguard rescue helicopter
A walker sustained an ankle injury while descending Rest Dodd between Ullswater and Haweswater. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team responded with ten rescuers, provided medical care including a splint, and evacuated the casualty by stretcher to their vehicle at Hayeswater outflow.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by stretcher
A 10-year-old girl and her mother and aunt were descending Beinn Achaladair in August 2022 when thick mist suddenly descended with zero visibility. After waiting an hour for conditions to improve, the mother made the decision to call 999 for assistance. A coastguard helicopter successfully evacuated the three climbers after an initial attempt was aborted due to high winds.
Outcome: all three evacuated by rescue helicopter
Three German visitors became disoriented by weather on a hill near Ullapool. They were quickly located by search and rescue dog Rona and assessed as uninjured, though cold and wet, before being walked back to their campsite.
Outcome: walkers located uninjured and walked off the hill
A mountain biker sustained a serious leg injury in Donard Wood on 31 July 2022. The Mourne Mountain Rescue Team and NI Air Ambulance attended, treated the casualty and transported him by stretcher to a team vehicle, then by helicopter to hospital.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by air ambulance to hospital
An experienced mountaineer died in a climbing accident on the North Face of Ben Nevis on 29 July 2022. He fell at Zero Gully and was recovered by Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team. His family described the incident as tragic but stated it could not have been prevented.
Outcome: fatality
A golden retriever suffering from suspected heat exhaustion was rescued from the Glen River area of the Mourne Mountains after being walked on an exceptionally hot day. The dog was treated and evacuated by stretcher over three hours by a team of twelve Mourne Mountain Rescue volunteers, then transported to a local veterinary clinic.
Outcome: dog carried off mountain by stretcher and taken to vets
Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue attended to multiple incidents involving mountain bikers over three days in Innerleithen. The team provided initial first aid and assisted casualties to waiting ambulances following separate crashes.
Outcome: Casualties transported to hospital
Two children who became separated during an orienteering exercise at Tollymore Forest Park were reported missing on the evening of 14 June. They were located safe and well approximately two miles from their last known location just before midnight, with assistance from the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team, search dogs, and police air support.
Outcome: both children located safe and well
A walker sustained a bad injury to their lower leg in the Black Mountains near Grwyne Fawr Reservoir. The individual was successfully evacuated from the remote location and transported to hospital.
Outcome: Hospitalised
A woman slipped while descending Tryfan after scattering her father's ashes on the summit and became stranded on a narrow ledge 300ft above a drop for over three hours. A 12-person mountain rescue team and helicopter were deployed in a seven-hour operation to locate her using mobile phone GPS and extract her by abseil. She sustained bumps and bruises but no serious injuries.
Outcome: casualty abseiled to safety by rescue team, sustained minor injuries
A person fell approximately 15 feet down an embankment at Campsie Glen near Lennoxtown on 30 May 2022. Lomond Mountain Rescue Team and other emergency services conducted a complex multi-agency rescue operation to extract the casualty, who was then airlifted to hospital. The nature and extent of injuries were not disclosed.
Outcome: casualty airlifted to hospital by air ambulance
A backpack with camping equipment was discovered abandoned approximately 100 metres east of the summit of Goatfell on the Isle of Arran. The Arran Mountain Rescue Team appealed for help identifying the owner, as it remained unclear whether the rucksack had been forgotten or intentionally left, and the whereabouts of its owner were unknown.
Outcome: appeal issued for identification of owner
Two women were rescued from separate incidents in the Brecon Beacons on 9 May 2022. The first woman suffered a lower leg injury above Ogmore Vale and was evacuated by helicopter to hospital. The second woman sustained a suspected lower leg fracture on the south side of Cribyn and was evacuated by stretcher and ambulance.
Outcome: both casualties evacuated to hospital by helicopter and stretcher respectively
A woman sustained a leg injury while hiking on the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire and was airlifted to hospital. Multiple emergency services including Ochils Mountain Rescue, Scottish Ambulance Service Special Operations Team, and Helimed 5 coordinated the rescue, carrying the casualty by stretcher to the helicopter.
Outcome: airlifted to hospital by helicopter