Details of our Callouts will be posted here. As we have recently rebuilt our website, all our historical callout information from our old site are contained in the attached PDF document.
Callout Archive
Callouts
- Beinn Narnain 13/1/2018
Oban MRT and Police Scotland MRT were out this evening rescuing 2 cragfast hillwalkers close to the summit of Beinn Narnain above Arrochar. Pair were located and assisted up over the summit and walked off hill. …
- Ben Lora - Missing young person
Team called out at 15:56 to assist @obanpol & Police Scotland to search for a young person separated from his family on Ben Lora. Missing youth found by local walkers and assisted of the hill safe and well as team and police were arranging search area.…
- Callout - Light Aircraft Crash
Oban MRT was called out yesterday at 3.15 pm to search for a light aircraft reported missing over the hills north of Glen Kinglass. This followed the earlier deployment of Oban Lifeboat to search Loch Etive and the slopes of the hills visible below the low cloud base. An advance party including the Team Leader drove to a an elevated position on the track overlooking Ardmaddy at the entrance to Glen Kinglass known from experience to provide the best VHF and mobile coverage in an area where commun…
- Rescue - Beinn Udlaidh
Second weekend in a row the team was called out. This time to Beinn Udlaidh in Glen Orchy to a fallen climber with a broken ankle. The weather was pretty poor. With the help of Tristan our team member in the Glen and his quad we quickly got up into the coire and met the lads that had called us out. They had done a great job getting the injured climber down to the Coire floor. Robin and Rich sorted the casualty out and Rescue 177 showed up just at the right time to lift him to hospital. Home in t…
- Rescue - Beinn an Dothaidh
Oban MRT were called out at 16.00 today to the North Eastern Coire of Beinn an Doithaidh. Together with Arrochar MRT the Police MRT and an RAF MR team. The reporter who call in heard load shouts and screams on the buttress above him. An RAF group was dropped on the hill and escorted some embarrassed climbers off the hill. Everyone returned to base in time for a late Valentines dinner.…
