Rescuers make their way up Cadair Idris to find the walkers. Photo: Aberdyfi SRT
A mountain rescue team was called out after a two walkers got lost in low cloud on a Snowdonia mountain.
Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team was alerted about 5.20pm on Sunday when the pair called for help from Cadair Idris.
Team member Graham O’Hanlon said: “Having little information with which to work, and with the informant’s phone going straight to voicemail, the team was deployed to search the Mynydd Moel area of the mountain.
“Shortly after team volunteers set out, North Wales Police reported further contact with the pair, a man and woman from Kent, who said that the cloud had lifted and they believed they were back on the right track.”
A small group from the rescue team continued up the mountain and met the walkers to check on their welfare and ensure that they were safely heading downwards.
The rescue ended at 6.45pm.
Nikki
31 July 2017If people aren't equipped with the knowledge of being able to assess the weather on the mountain - whether it's safe to climb or not, then they have no right being on that mountain. Putting rescue teams in danger let alone themselves iso NOT on
Walker
31 July 2017I don't think that this is due to being unable to assess the weather, it's an inability to navigate. Same result though!
JH
01 August 2017"Lost" .... really? Anyone else reading this thinking it's just another example of the scourge of the mobile phone and how it's over used as a "get Out of Jail Free" card.
Getting "lost" in itself where there is no danger to life isn't an MR call
Sounds to me that they made very little effort to extricate themselves thinking MR are at their beck and call.
Oh ...any anyone else noticed the weather in the photo? Terrible isn't it! Visibility down to ...