A climber was rescued from a Scottish mountain vary after getting misplaced in blizzard situations.
Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team (CMRT) mentioned the climber turned separated from their group throughout a snowstorm within the boulder discipline of the Coire an t-Sneachda on Friday.
Temperatures have been round -3C on the time, in keeping with the Met Office.
According to the CMRT, the climber was “very cold and suffering from exhaustion”.
“Unable to walk due to exhaustion, after some rewarming, we packaged the climber onto our stretcher using blizzard blankets and heat pads and carried them out to our Can-Am [off-road vehicle] that was waiting in Coire Cas,” the rescue workforce mentioned in an announcement.
Everyone was “safe and back at base” by 10.30pm, in keeping with the rescue workforce.
The Cairngorms – a mountain vary within the jap Highlands of Scotland – have seen heavy snowfall and temperatures beneath freezing all through December.
Earlier this month, a workforce from CMRT rescued a climber who was injured after getting caught in an avalanche within the Coire an t-Sneachda.
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The Coire an t-Sneachda – translated from Scottish Gaelic to English as Corrie of the Snow – is a excessive mountain corrie positioned inside the Cairngorms.
Located close to the Cairngorm ski centre, it’s a standard vacation spot for rock and ice climbers.
However, it has been the location of a number of deaths, together with in 2007 when 5 climbers died from falls or publicity to adversarial climate inside a two-month interval.
CMRT is made up of 40 volunteers and depends on public donations to fund their work – coping with round 45 call-outs annually.
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