A Northumberland rescue team's winter training was called into action immediately when two climbers fell in Scotland this weekend.
Northumberland National Park Mountain rescue team were doing winter skills training in the Cairngorms when one of their team witnessed two climbers falling from the Goat Track area of Coire an t-Sneachda. One of the two National Park teams was above them on the Fiacaill Ridge and immediately called 999, with the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team coming out to help and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency helicopter travelling from Inverness.
And Iain Nixon, Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue team leader says that the two climbers were very lucky to escape without life-changing or life-threatening injuries, after potentially falling somewhere between 100 and 150 metres. He said: "In terms of graded climbs in Scotland, the Fiacaill Ridge is a grade one so it's not technically difficult but it is quite exposed and if you came off that ridge, there's a high likelihood you'd hurt yourself.
