Two climbers missing in Cairngorms

A search is under way for two ice climbers who have been missing overnight in the Cairngorms in "dreadful" weather conditions. The pair, who were climbing in the Coire an t-Sneachda area where there is waist high snow in some places, were last seen on Sunday afternoon.

The alarm was raised when the men, both from the Aberdeen area, failed to turn up at a meeting point.

Mountain rescue teams and an RAF helicopter are involved in the search.

A spokesman for Northern Constabulary said one of the missing men was in his late teens and the other in his early 20s.

Winds in the area have been gusting at up to 70 miles an hour, lowering the temperature to -20C.

During the night an RAF rescue helicopter from Lossiemouth carried out a search using an infra-red camera, but nothing was found.

The ground search, involving Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and a team from RAF Kinloss, was due to resume at first light.


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20 Nov, 2006
This sort of news flash always makes my stomach churn. We all hope for a good outcome to the search.
20 Nov, 2006
Not good. I really wouldn't have wanted to be out last night. Hope they are OK.
20 Nov, 2006
Yep, fingers & toes crossed for them. Must have been hellish up there in those conditions.
20 Nov, 2006
I take it the weather really crapped out then? All the photos were of clear blue skies! Fingers crossed for them. Hope it turns out good, everyone has so much better kit these days you have a chance. A mate of mine spent a night out above Coire an Lochain some years ago after him and his partner got disoriented on the descent in wild weather. They tried digging in but the snow wasn't consolidated enough, but he said he mainly kept digging snow around just to keep warm. But he's a hard b*****d. Hopefully these guys turn up bedgraggled but OK.
20 Nov, 2006
we were climbing over in Corrie an Lochain yesterday, topped out around 3 ish and walked along the corrie rim to the goat track into t-sneachda and descended there down to the MR box did not see anyone, although the visibility was pish and the howling wind negated any converstaion / shouts took us a couple of hours to walk out from there in the wind and snow would not have been nice out there last night - hope they guys turn out safe enough
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