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AN injured woman had to be airlifted from Snowdon in a major rescue operation.
More than 20 mountain rescue volunteers and the coastguard helicopter were scrambled to the Pyg Track, a popular route up the mountain, after the woman fell while walking and suffered an ankle injury.
The alarm was raised at about 11.30am last Tuesday and the woman was located using the PhoneFind app.
It was feared that due to challenging flying conditions, the woman would most likely have to be carried from the mountain, so a large mountain rescue team was assembled.
A total of 22 mountain rescue volunteers from the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, Ogwen Val
THE Christian season of Lent begins on February 26. Lent is an old English word for the season of Spring and it represents the 40 days Jesus spent being tempted in the wilderness.
This year I’m going to be following a campaign called ‘Lament for Lent’. The campaign urges people to take the time to lament so that they can learn to lean more deeply on God. There are so many things in our world ley Mountain Rescue Team and Aberglaslyn worth lamenting right now: climate crisis and the recent floods, the threat of the Corona virus, the fate of the Syrians in Idlib.
We know that at times Jesus wept and expressed the deepest sorrow for things happening in his life, and as we focus on his time in the wilderness lament seems appropriate. But lament is not wallowing in our sorrow and getting bogged down. Lament can be a useful way of finding a
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You might remember the Boney M hit from the seventies, Rivers of Babylon, which was actually a setting of one of the oldest poems in the Bible. ‘By the rivers of Babylon, where we sat down, there we wept when we remembered Zion...how shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?’
And yet that particular lament through darkness to the
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Just before 3pm, the coastguard helicopter did manage to make it to the scene, and the woman was airlifted to hospital by the crew “despite strong turbulence”.
A spokesman for Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team said it was a “great example of local teams working together”.
He added that team members had been able to attend to the injured woman despite an ongoing call to help two walkers who had got stuck on Crib Goch, also on the Snowdon massif.
This was because a group of experienced hill walkers were able to help the pair to descend from the mountain, which “saved the mountain rescue team significant time and freed up resources to assist with the injured lady”. ends with a note of hope and optimism that God will still be with us and that we need have nothing to fear, even when things seem at their worst because with God is grace and power to free us and save us. That’s the challenge of Lent: to emerge from the wilderness restored, rejuvenated, feeling it’s good to be alive with not only a glass that is half full, but overflowing.
Rev Andrew Sully