A volunteer-run mountain rescue charity. 16 incidents featured here.
A hillwalker who had been missing since May 7th was located after a search operation involving multiple rescue teams. The individual was found safe and well by the Dundonnell Mountain Rescue team.
Outcome: Safe
Two walkers required rescue after becoming stuck on a mountain ridge without appropriate winter equipment. The team reached them via the steep south side of Liathach and subsequently roped them across the narrow ridge and down snow slopes to the main path below.
Outcome: Found uninjured but cold
Volunteers from the Torridon Mountain Rescue Team conducted a challenging overnight rescue following a walker's fall on a snow-covered slope near Bidean an Eòin Dearg. The injured individual sustained a shoulder injury and became hypothermic before being evacuated down to Glenuaig Lodge after extensive efforts across difficult terrain.
Outcome: Evacuated to hospital care
The Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team reported a busy couple of days, which included training followed by three call-outs all located in Coire an t-Sneachda. Another local team also experienced a busy weekend involving technical rigging and the assessment and evacuation of multiple casualties during challenging winter conditions.
Outcome: Casualties were assessed, stabilised, and evacuated.
Members of the Torridon Mountain Rescue Team were called out on Christmas Eve to search for a lost walker west of Beinn Alligin. After several hours of searching, the team successfully located the individual and guided them back to safety.
Outcome: Person found and safely recovered
Rescuers conducted an extensive search for a missing walker in Glen Shiel over several days. The individual's body was eventually found high on the slopes of the Five Sisters of Kintail range on Monday afternoon. Authorities confirmed that the recovery effort involved multiple local and regional rescue teams.
Outcome: Deceased
A 65-year-old hill-walker from Dingwall has been missing since 8 September 2024. His car was found at a car park near Beinn Alligin on 18 September, prompting a search by mountain rescue teams, RAF, police, and search dogs in the Torridon hills and nearby areas.
A caver became stuck in a tight crack in a cave near Applecross in Wester Ross and was unable to move. Members of the Scottish Cave Rescue Organisation and local cavers worked together for five hours to carefully manipulate him out of the squeeze, with Torridon Mountain Rescue Team providing surface support. He was brought to the surface unharmed but cold and tired.
Outcome: casualty rescued unharmed
A professor sustained serious injuries after falling approximately 100 feet down a scree gully while hiking in the Scottish Highlands. He was located and subsequently airlifted to safety by the Torridon Mountain Rescue team.
Outcome: Injured (Broken wrist, vertebrae, and ribs)
Two climbers fell during the descent of the Black Carls on Beinn Eighe on Saturday, 2 March. Torridon Mountain Rescue Team responded and evacuated the casualty by helicopter winch from the ridge as darkness approached, avoiding a lengthy stretcher carry.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by helicopter winch
A church minister fell approximately 30 feet down a rocky mountainside while descending Beinn Liath Mhòr in Torridon. He sustained cuts and bruises and was assisted by Torridon Mountain Rescue Team and a coastguard helicopter before being flown to hospital.
Outcome: casualty evacuated by helicopter to hospital with cuts and bruises
A 37-year-old hillwalker died after falling from the summit of Liathach in the Torridon area on Thursday. The alarm was raised at 16:25 and Torridon Mountain Rescue Team assisted at the scene.
Outcome: fatality
Two brothers and their dog went missing on a hill walk in the Wester Ross area on Thursday morning. Mountain rescue teams found the body of one brother, Alan Gibson, on Saturday, while the search for his brother Neil continued. Weather conditions during the search were described as tricky with frequent snow showers.
Outcome: body recovered
A 65-year-old experienced hillrunner and member of Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team went missing after setting out on a running trip in Torridon on 20 September 2015. His body was found on Liathach on 26 September 2015 after a major multi-agency search. Police confirmed there were no suspicious circumstances.
Outcome: body recovered
Two experienced climbers from Suffolk were caught in an avalanche on Coireag Dubh Mor in Torridon on Friday night. One climber was found walking out to seek help on Saturday afternoon, but the other was discovered deceased. Mountain rescue teams and coastguard helicopter assisted in the search despite severe weather conditions.
Outcome: one climber killed, one climber survived
A 41-year-old climber fell approximately 40 metres on Slioch in Wester Ross on Sunday and was airlifted to hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Torridon Mountain Rescue Team and rescue helicopters from RAF Lossiemouth and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency attended the scene.
Outcome: casualty pronounced dead on arrival at hospital