The walkers were located in the Neuadd Valley. Photo: Graham Horn CC-BY-SA-2.0

A group of four walkers was rescued from the Brecon Beacons after getting lost.

A police helicopter airlifted two of them from the hillside as storms approached yesterday.

Members of the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team escorted the remaining two to safety after using the Sarloc mobile phone system to pinpoint the group’s position.

The team was called out by South Wales Police when the four walkers rang for help after becoming lost, cold and wet.

A Central Beacons MRT spokesperson said: “Mobile phone contact with the group was good and by using our incident controllers’ local knowledge, their description pointed us to the Neuadd Valley and we began a hasty search.

“In conjunction with Sarloc rescue technology, using the group’s smartphone to pinpoint their location via GPS, we were able to work with our colleagues from the National Police Air Service at St Athans to airlift two of the group back to our control vehicle for prompt rewarming and a debrief.

“The remaining individuals were escorted off by hill parties from CBMRT to our waiting Land Rover.”

The spokesperson said it was ‘A good result and great joint working between us, South Wales Police and the National Police Air Service’.