A walker suffered a number of accidents and needed to be airlifted to hospital after he was swept over a waterfall in Scotland.
The man misplaced his footing and fell right into a burn – a stream – which led to the Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall close to Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway within the Scottish Lowlands, in difficult climate circumstances on Saturday morning.
He was then swept over one in all a sequence of waterfalls – a fall of 10-15m (about 33-49ft) – earlier than being carried additional alongside the burn by the present, in accordance with the Moffat Mountain Rescue Team.
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The waterfall is without doubt one of the most spectacular pure landmarks within the south of Scotland, with a principal fall of 60m (about 197ft) – making it the fifth highest cascade within the UK.
Mountain rescuers attended the scene alongside different emergency providers together with police and firefighters, in addition to helicopters from the coastguard and the Helimed trauma staff, after the alarm was raised at 10.30am.
Rescuers needed to deal with winds of as much as 40mph as they sought to extract the person from the world. He was winched from the water and preliminary care was given to him on the banks of the stream earlier than he was taken by helicopter to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Mountain rescue staff chief James Coles stated: “He lost his footing and slipped in. The main waterfall is huge, fortunately he didn’t go over that one, but there is a series of upper waterfalls.
“He was swept alongside the burn then over the waterfall and was then swept additional alongside the burn and someway he managed to cease himself.
“He was there with friends and they raised the alarm. It was a bit of bad luck, they were trying to take photos of the lovely scenery and it appears he slipped and ended up in the burn.”
A spokesman for the rescue staff stated: “With gusts of wind up to 40mph, all teams involved had a challenging day on the hill before being stood down at 2.30pm.”
Source: information.sky.com”