injured walker Highlands Serious incident

Dumyat

Sunday, 16 June 2024

A hillwalker fell a significant distance while walking on Dumyat on 16 June 2024 and became stranded in a gully. Emergency services, mountain rescue, and a BASICS Scotland doctor worked together to extract the casualty using technical rope rescue systems before they were winched aboard a coastguard helicopter and flown to hospital.

Outcome: casualty airlifted to hospital by coastguard helicopter

Responding team

Ochils MRT — team website ↗

Source

Walker airlifted to hospital after falling 'significant distance' in Scots hills news · dailyrecord.co.uk

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