MOUNTAIN rescue teams have carried a man to safety after he was stranded on a snowy and icy Herefordshire hillside.
Longtown Mountain Rescue Team, based in Abergavenny but covering the Herefordshire border region, said the "well prepared and experienced" walker had slipped, injuring his knee.
With West Mercia Police, the rescue team, made up of volunteers and relying on donations, eventually tracked the man down on Black Hill, near Craswall on the Welsh border.
Two teams searched the Olchon Valley gulley path and a third via the Cats Back Ridge, eventually finding the man in the seven-hour operation.
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Once with the injured man, they gave medical aid but also tried to keep him warm as "snow was falling heavily and the wind was picking up".
He was carried down the mountain via the Olchon Valley path as Cats Back Ridge was becoming "very icy", rescuers said.
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The man was then taken to hospital by West Midlands Ambulance Service, with the team stood down at 9pm on Wednesday, seven hours after the call came in from police.
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