Sad day yesterday. Large search on Ben Starav where Lochaber MRT and ourselves were helping Glencoe MRT to search for walker missing since Saturday. Conditions were difficult as Ben Starav is a very complex mountain with very challenging terrain. The weather did not help with frequent lightening strikes all around…
The team was called out this afternoon to rescue a walker stuck in difficult conditions on Ben Dorain. Team members walked up and found him safe and well and accompanied him off the hill.
Some pictures from our rigging and stretcher lowering training on Sunday in sunny Glen Noe.
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It has been almost two years since I so nearly paid the ultimate price for my passion for the mountains and the outdoors in general. While I was very lucky to survive a fall that on another day would have proved fatal, it is still very difficult to comprehend how…
Ian, Kenny and I took the landrover up the track that follows the River Tulla as far as the river crossing and left it there to strike out across the wooded hillside and railway line in direction of estimated location on edge of Coire an Lochain. We reckoned the railway…
Michael Tunney Rescue – This is a basic timeline of the rescue from the position of the co ordinator of the rescue. in this case the Oban MRT team leader. 1643 Initial Callout: the details given were “Mobile phone callout from son. Father and 16 year old son, dad fell…
Things were going quite peacefully over Christmas, no committee meetings, no arguing over what jackets the team should buy, no arguing where the landrover should be kept or who Kenny will allow to drive it! Lunchtime on Friday 4th January and I was talking to Kenny Harris in WH Smiths,…
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