Incident reports

A walker became disoriented and benighted while completing the Beinn Dearg four Munros circuit in Wester Ross, spending a night out in poor conditions. She raised the alarm early the following morning, triggering a search involving Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team, SARDA, and a coastguard helicopter; she was located and recovered safely.

Outcome: located by helicopter and driven to Inverness to recover

A 21-year-old woman was rescued after falling and injuring her ankle while walking near Green Withens Reservoir in Calderdale. A combined operation involving 44 members from Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team located and evacuated her to a waiting ambulance.

Outcome: casualty evacuated by stretcher to ambulance

The team was called out late last night to assist South Yorkshire Police in searching for a vulnerable missing person in the Goldthorpe area. After conducting searches across several areas over a period of six and a half hours, the individual's whereabouts remain unknown, and police investigations are ongoing.

Outcome: Unresolved/Ongoing Investigation

A lifeboat volunteer and training manager contracted giardiasis, a parasitic infection linked to sewage, after spending two hours in the River Severn during a training exercise in October 2020. He spent over three weeks unwell, including multiple hospital admissions, and investigators determined an 80% probability the infection came from human sewage contamination in the river.

Outcome: casualty hospitalised for three-and-a-half weeks, recovered

Two ambulances and a mountain rescue team were blocked by illegal parking while responding to incidents near Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. The first incident involved emergency crews attempting to help someone in trouble on Ben Lomond on Saturday, and the second occurred at Callander Crags on Sunday. Poor parking obstructed emergency access in both cases, with a car owner charged following the second incident.

Outcome: emergency response delayed by illegal parking; details of primary incident outcome not specified

A woman fell while walking at Pots and Pans in Saddleworth on 20 September 2020 and sustained a lower leg injury. Oldham Mountain Rescue Team attended, assessed her on scene, and carried her off the hill by stretcher to a waiting ambulance for hospital treatment.

Outcome: casualty evacuated by stretcher to hospital

Mountain Rescue was called out on 18th September to assist with an injured horse rider in woodland at North Anston. The casualty sustained injuries after a fall, presenting with pain in her lower back, hip, and shoulder. She was subsequently immobilized and transported via mountain rescue stretcher to the road head.

Outcome: Transported to medical care

Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team assisted Police Scotland in searching for a missing 22-year-old man in the Dingwall area. The person was located safe and well, and the search was stood down at approximately 10:30 am.

Outcome: missing person found safe and well

A 12-year-old girl fell from a rope swing in a wooded area of Glodwick, sustaining fractures to both arms and a knee injury. Oldham Mountain Rescue Team assisted with extraction from the steep location using their Alphin stretcher, and the casualty was treated and evacuated successfully.

Outcome: casualty treated and evacuated by stretcher

A walker with a lower leg injury was assisted by Assynt Mountain Rescue Team on Suilven. The casualty was extracted by Stornoway coastguard helicopter during a break in the clouds, and team members accompanied his wife to the car park.

Outcome: casualty evacuated by helicopter

A dog fell into a 20-foot-deep pothole on Saddleworth Moor near Dovestone Reservoir and was successfully rescued by Oldham Mountain Rescue Team. The team used the incident to warn walkers about the hazards of exploring such holes without proper experience and equipment.

Outcome: dog rescued and reunited with owner, shaken but otherwise uninjured

A walker fell and injured her back and arm at Sgwd y Pannwr waterfall in the Brecon Beacons. She was winched into a coastguard rescue helicopter and airlifted to hospital. Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team assisted with the rescue.

Outcome: airlifted to hospital by coastguard helicopter

A group of four walkers required rescue on Cairn Toul after becoming lost and suffering from exposure during a 24-hour walk. Mountain rescue teams located the party in the early hours when they were found to be wet, cold, and one individual was hypothermic.

Outcome: All rescued safely but tired

An experienced hillwalker fell 5–10 metres in the North Gully on Tryfan on Thursday 27 August and was unable to descend due to injury. Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue lowered him 500 metres down a gully in a stretcher over five belay stations before he was airlifted by Coastguard helicopter to Bangor hospital.

Outcome: casualty lowered 500m by stretcher and airlifted to hospital in Bangor

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist a family of three after the father fell in moorland near Dovestone in the Saddleworth countryside. All three were safely located and helped down from the steep ground, with the father receiving assistance from team members. The incident lasted approximately two hours and fifteen minutes.

Outcome: casualty and family assisted off moorland safely

A walker in a group of nine ascending Tryfan suffered a panic attack and extreme exhaustion, becoming unable to descend. The man was airlifted by helicopter to safety after being located on the west face of the mountain. The rescue team noted the group lacked equipment, experience and route knowledge.

Outcome: casualty airlifted by helicopter to mountain rescue base

Emergency crews responded to reports of an injured climber on Mitre Ridge at Beinn a’ Bhuird. The operation involved multiple teams and culminated in the successful airlift of two climbers to safety.

Outcome: Two climbers safely rescued; one treated for shoulder injury.

A vulnerable missing person was located at Wimberry Rocks near Dovestone Reservoir following a search operation involving police, Oldham Mountain Rescue, and a National Police Air Service helicopter on 10 August 2020. The male was safely accompanied down the hill and taken to hospital for treatment.

Outcome: person located and taken to hospital for treatment

Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation attended two separate incidents in Snowdonia on Saturday 8 August. A man was airlifted from Glyder Fawr after dislocating and possibly fracturing his ankle on Seniors Ridge, and was flown to hospital in Bangor. Later the same day, a man and his dog were safely escorted down from Tryfan after the dog became unable to continue on the North Ridge.

Outcome: injured man airlifted and hospitalised; man and dog escorted safely down the mountain