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As a member of NEWSAR (North East Wales Search and Rescue) I hope we don't ever meet professionally, but if you do have an accident in the Egwlseg area (or any of the quarries of NE Wales) NEWSAR is there to help. Call 999/112 and ask for Police and then Mountain Rescue.
We attended an accident with a fallen climber at Dinbren this evening. Later I briefly visited her in hospital to see how she was and get back some of our gear that went off with the RAF heli. I am pleased to report she seemed to be fairly OK, given her unfortunate fall.

Thank you to the casualty for permission to use the photos taken.

A big thanks to the Welsh Ambulance Service crew and most especially to the crew of Rescue 122, C Flight 22 Sqn RAF Valley for some great flying, fantastic casualty care and a swift evacuation. Walking off with a stretcher from the middle tier at Dinbren would have been "interesting"!
Some pictures here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerald-davison/sets/72157626977583662/with/583...

A good write up of two very different successive nights of NEWSAR operations here.
http://groovynut.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-its-all-about.html

For more information on NEWSAR see
http://www.newsar.org.uk
There is a "contact us" page if you need it.

Gerald Davison
Secretary NEWSAR

In reply to Gerald Davison: Well done you lot. Glad to hear casualty is on the mend. 'intereting' is one way of describing movement of casualty on rough ground. One would be using rather fruity language....(under one's breath of course)

In reply to Gerald Davison: Great photos. How did the unfortunate climber fall? Dinbren is mainy sport isn't it? Hope she recovers quickly.

Nope plenty of trad there. Short trad hmmm...

In reply to TobyA: I can't say what the exact circumstances of the fall were, although a summary was relayed to me by another team member when I got to the site. As I don't have it first hand I'd rather not speculate.
I can confirm it was a trad route, top tier, well off to the left hand side.

In reply to Gerald Davison:

Thanks for the link Gerald.

In reply to Gerald Davison: The fallen climber was a friend of mine and someone i have climbed with myself! she said, she's on the mend and hoping to get out again as soon as she possibly can, good to hear.!

In reply to CragRat_Trad:

Nice one, great to hear she's in good spirits! Give her our regards (NEWSAR)