Busy weekend for Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team
ARROCHAR Mountain Rescue Team was busy last weekend helping several injured walkers.
On Saturday April 7 at 11.50am the team was called out to help a 75-year-old man who had fallen and injured his head and shoulder near Butterbridge.
One team member, who was on the hill, helped the man, while the team was deployed with equipment to carry the casualty below cloud level.
The man was then taken to hospital.
Karen Black, from Glasgow, commented on the Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Facebook page: ‘This is my dad who, despite his many injuries, is making good progress in hospital.
‘We can’t thank everyone enough that was involved in his res- cue. We are so grateful to you all.’
The team was then called out to help a woman who had fallen near Beinn and Lochain. As an air ambulance attended this incident, it spotted a second male casualty and assessed him as a priority. He was winched on board and taken to hospital.
The team search manager requested another
We can’t thank everyone enough. We are so grateful Karen Black Daughter of rescued walker
helicopter to deal with the original woman casualty and a helicopter was dispatched from a training exercise near the Kyle Lochalsh to help.
Four team members helped the woman onto a stretcher and she was airlifted to hospital.