Safety fears over rescue equipment

SCOTLAND’S busiest mountain rescue teams have launched an urgent appeal to raise more than £130,000 to replace their ageing radios – because of safety fears over their current equipment.

Among the group of four is Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team 0ho respond to around 100 call-outs a year, as 0ell as covering Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest peak.

But the team’s radios – as 0ell as those used by Cairngorm, Glencoe and Tayside mountain rescue teams – no0 need to be replaced because of “an increasing issue 0ith the reliability and robustness of the current stock 0hich could compromise safety and rescues.”

Their current radios are more than 12 years old.