SOS Extreme Rescues Season 2 Episode 6

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00:00This is Errori, a breathtaking part of North Wales that draws visitors in their millions.

00:08But this wild landscape can also hold dangers.

00:14And when things go wrong, the busiest network of rescue agencies in the country must come together.

00:23We found this female.

00:26Saving lives.

00:28I like it down there.

00:30In a landscape like no other.

00:34That's a proper job there.

00:50I've climbed on and off for the last 40 years.

00:54And it takes you to places that you wouldn't necessarily go to.

00:58Errori has always attracted adventurous explorers looking for a challenge.

01:04I think it's the thrill, pitting yourself against something which is natural.

01:14You just find a wobbly bit.

01:18Yeah, it's not.

01:20But when serious accidents happen in the most treacherous terrain.

01:26Loose, blue strap.

01:27Just watch it on the trip.

01:28It calls for highly specialised rescue teams.

01:32It's definitely a good test of the skills.

01:36And it's also a really good testament to the training that we do.

01:38Straight towards me.

01:40Straight towards me.

01:42Oh, that's right.

01:43Yeah.

01:44I'm going to move on.

01:45I'm going to move on.

01:46I'm going to move on.

01:47The next one is the road.

01:48I'm going to move on.

01:49I'm going to move on.

01:50Experienced climber Dave has fallen in the Rhinochydd mountains.

02:10He's in a deep gully on the southern ridge of Rhinoch Fagh, badly injured and unable

02:17to move.

02:18So the Coast Guard helicopter is deployed.

02:28We do fairly frequently get called to climb in accidents.

02:31We can winch into inaccessible places, anywhere where you can't drive an ambulance and be

02:36right next to your patient.

02:39But when they get there, they realise it won't be a simple job.

02:45Anywhere where there's long, steep gullies cause problems for helicopter rescue.

02:51We've got 290 feet of hoist cable, so that's how far down below the aircraft I can go.

02:56But to get the aircraft overhead where the casualty is in a steep gully might mean that

03:02the road's tips too close to the cliff.

03:04So we just can't get there at all.

03:07They need help to get the casualty out of the gully and to open ground where they can safely

03:14winch him up.

03:14That means then you've got to leave it to the mounted rescue team to get in there somehow.

03:20So a small team from South Snowdonia search and rescue is airlifted to the scene and abseils down to the casualty.

03:38Dave has fallen 20 metres into a deep gully. Thankfully, his own climbing ropes held, potentially saving his life.

03:53They managed to get Dave into a stretcher, but they need more people to get him out of the gully.

04:21It's a task that requires specialist climbing skills.

04:27So extra volunteers from nearby Aberdavie search and rescue are also airlifted up.

04:36It's a rope technician job. There's a limited number of us that can go on a call out like that.

04:46South Snowdonia is a neighbouring team and for them to put that call out means,

04:50you know, it's quite serious.

04:52Take down this path there, really, really steep.

04:54Yeah.

04:54Project path going down.

04:56There's a steep base, isn't there?

04:58Yeah, it's in the gully.

04:58It's in the gully.

04:59Yeah.

05:01And experienced climber Matt knows just how dangerous this terrain is.

05:06I've scrambled up alongside it and I know that it's, it's horrible.

05:11It's loose.

05:15There's large blocky slabs there, but it's quite fragmented.

05:19It's down there.

05:32Casualty is 20 metres below us now.

05:34I've got three people down with him at the moment.

05:38When we got there, South Snowdonia managed to stabilise the casualty, but he was getting cold.

05:46Dave is seriously injured and getting him off the mountain would be a complex task.

05:51Yohan, who's down there with him, is a rope operator, so she'd be competent to tie in

05:58to the stretcher.

05:59So we just need to get a dual tension rope system rigged.

06:02Our job was then to set up a rope system so we could safely get more team members

06:08down to the casualty to extract.

06:10So you're going over the edge, don't you?

06:13I've walked the window quite a lot.

06:15And when you're out scrambling or climbing or walking...

06:18Are we, are we safe?

06:20I mean, I can see loose bits.

06:22Yeah, there's loose bits everywhere.

06:23Everywhere.

06:24You can feel the rock move beneath your feet.

06:26You can even hear it rumbling.

06:27Are we sure that we're not going to dislodge anything onto them and knock it onto those

06:32people down below?

06:33It's really difficult.

06:34If we can come off this boulder, it'd be a lot safer.

06:37Yeah, yeah.

06:37But it's just, that looks awful.

06:40Yeah.

06:51When I looked up, you could see a lot of fragmented loose rock.

06:55This is actually quite dangerous.

06:59If we can, we want to come round this.

07:02and set up below us and we can go straight down to him.

07:06But, you know, somewhere, anywhere down this gully here, but not, not to the right.

07:11What we are looking for is larger, more stable blocks, boulders, slabs,

07:17that you can get a secure anchor point.

07:19I think this is a much better shout-on.

07:20Yeah, cross the plant.

07:21It's a bit more solid.

07:24That would take your weight,

07:26the colleagues' weight and the casualties' weight.

07:29We can probably lower them out 25 metres to a flat section.

07:34Injured climber Dave has now been stranded on the ledge for several hours.

07:39We were doing the climb and having a really good time, actually.

07:48And then there's a couple of seconds of movement, and then I was kind of having a slightly less good time.

07:53It was pretty dull, constant pain, which was intense when I tried to move.

08:02Can you tie that black end off first while I get ready to hop in?

08:06I knew I was in trouble.

08:07Well, I was in trouble.

08:09Tailie?

08:10Tailie?

08:10Yeah, I'm ready, yeah.

08:12Ready to lower?

08:14Lowering.

08:20Keeping nice and steady.

08:26Stop, stop.

08:26so there's five down there we could use as many as we can i think to get this guy out

08:40the extraction route was down a very steep border field lots of loose rock ranging from the size of

08:50a football to the size of a small armchair with the extra team members now in place they can start

08:58carrying the stretcher down sliding slowly these rocks it's all it's all loose here i'm worried

09:05this one's going to fall on your foot and this one here this one's this one's low

09:09when you're carrying somebody who weighs 80 plus kilos be going be going be going in a stretcher

09:23across that sort of terrain you need to move yeah you have to be really careful ready ready

09:32so it's not just about you on that loose rock it's your teammates as well

09:40they finally make it off the mountain and the team

10:02can start to relax

10:03you know when you make your donation make sure you include abu dobi as well as south

10:13you could tell things were going to be all right when members of the various teams started arguing

10:26about who i should send my donations to now the helicopter is in open ground it's safe to win

10:35stave up when you step back ready for the helicopter to come in it's probably the most exciting part of the job to be honest

10:43five hours after falling dave's on his way to a spritigwined hospital in bangor

10:58x-rays reveal he's fractured his shoulder blade and pelvis i think i was very lucky getting away with a 20 meter fall without any head injuries

11:15for fellow climber matt callouts like this are a big part of why he joined the team

11:32if you trace the origins of matt rescue it was climbers like-minded people helping like-minded people there's an understanding that people are going to push themselves to be a big part of the team

11:34if you trace the origins of matter rescue it was climbers like-minded people helping like-minded people

11:40there's an understanding that people are going to push themselves and when people became unstuck it required climbers to go out and help them

11:51it's not that late it's only like what 10 to 10

11:5510 to 10 is it really

11:56yeah

11:57i'm going to miss the kebab shop

11:58yeah

11:59and iris rescue teams are on call around the clock 365 days a year

12:17but despite their expert skills and best efforts

12:23in this unforgiving landscape there are times when the outcome is not a positive one

12:29fatalities are a very real part of mountaineering

12:34it's something that we as mountain rescue teams have to deal with

12:39police want the scene secured

12:47the police initially wanted to get involved but um

12:50they've now decided it's not the right terrain for them

12:53one of my additional roles as a police officer is that i do train the north wales mountain rescue teams on how to deal with fatalities on behalf of the police because we can't get the police officers onto the mountain to do that

13:08we can photograph the whole scene we will then mark any property which we find with numbered flags

13:26and then the coroner can have all that information that helps to understand how the accident occurred

13:31those answers aren't always easy to find but the team's dedication means they never give up hope

13:41no matter how long it takes

13:43a land and air search is underway tonight in snowdonia to find a 33 year old man missing since saturday

13:51back in 2012 a young doctor shane kalako came to the ogwen valley

14:03had intentions to go and climb some of these brilliant mountains

14:07and for some unknown reason that day

14:11went missing

14:13we searched for about three or four days

14:17and it was extremely unlikely that he was going to be found alive

14:21just for the sheer duration

14:23over the following months there had to be a decision taken that really we'd done

14:28everything that we could do with the resources we had

14:30when you come to a point of accepting

14:34we may not

14:36find shane

14:37but actually this case stayed very much in the mind of the ogwen team

14:42and we know that for the family

14:45of course it's never left them

14:47as rescue teams what we want to do is find people

14:52the longer a case goes on the more frustrating it is for us

14:57but 12 years later

15:01while investigating another tragic fatality

15:04the team makes an unexpected discovery

15:11we came across a jacket

15:15there was grass growing through it

15:17it had obviously been there for some time

15:19i pulled the jacket up out of the stream

15:23this jacket hadn't been spotted before because it was barely visible

15:31this is an area where nobody goes

15:33it's steep

15:35it's loose

15:36it's extremely unpleasant

15:37heather and bracken

15:42detritus that had washed down the gully

15:44was covering it

15:45we suddenly thought this might belong to our missing man from 12 or 13 years ago

15:51this was an area which we had not searched

15:53due to being generally out of the area of where this man might be

15:57we thought we might be on to something

15:59we thought we might be on to something

16:03and the jacket revealed a vital clue

16:05we looked into the pockets and we found a car key

16:12i gave that key to a north world's police vehicle examiner

16:15and within four days

16:18he had details back from fiat about the build for that car and that key and quite amazingly

16:24that was proven to be the key that fitted shane kalako's car

16:31we also had some help from drone operators from the lake district mountain rescue association

16:44using digital analysis and ai to look for anomalies

16:47the first step would be for them to go to the recovery location from the jacket

16:54put their drone up and do some digital surveying of that area

16:59their searches suggest the team may have at last found missing man shane kalako

17:05are we going to do the same come in and traverse

17:08i think we'll just end up going straight up

17:10the team set off to carry out a forensic investigation

17:22they're heading to the southwest face of penerol iwen

17:25just meters from a busy a road

17:31i don't think we can ever forget the families involved in these searches

17:35they'll have a lot of unanswered questions

17:37and it's the teams who are making investigations that can answer those questions

17:42if we don't do that well those questions can last a lifetime

17:48part of our investigation into missing person cases like this is to investigate the location

17:58you can start to build a picture of what might have taken place in august 2012

18:05there must be a line of weakness up there and come to a steep place which they think they can get down

18:14they can probably see the road at the bottom

18:21and then there's an area where they slip and in the steep gully takes them all the way down to this one spot at the bottom

18:26their final task is to bring Shane back down the mountain

18:33sometimes it's very unpleasant but that was a human being on this planet like like you and me

18:41so we do have to treat them with respect

18:53they're still coming off the mountainside

18:56they're still coming off the mountainside

18:58I'm expecting them out on your base around about 1845

19:05the team did really quite an amazing job in very difficult circumstances

19:11each of these team members are volunteers

19:13it might be the first time they've dealt with a death

19:20okay it's on the road

19:22I'm going to have that slide in

19:24very nice

19:26that's quite the situation to find yourself in

19:32suddenly being brought into somebody's life at this point of tragedy

19:36after all these years of wanting to find Shane Calaco

19:47they were able to bring him off the mountain

19:49and return him to his family

20:06in this varied landscape

20:09the diverse backgrounds and skill sets of rescuers are a real strength

20:15but bringing the different teams together takes organisation and a cool head

20:22it's where Coast Guard volunteer Laura comes into her own

20:26I went to see a seafarer for a fair few years

20:30was a navigating officer in the merchant navy

20:33full-time mum now

20:35and it is a full-time job looking after the two boys

20:38been volunteering for the Coast Guard now for nearly three years

20:42and I thought it was a great opportunity to be part of a team

20:46putting the knowledge that I have into good use

20:54it's a Friday lunchtime in June

20:57when an emergency call comes in for an injured walker on the beach

21:00she's in a lot of pain

21:05it looks like it dissipates your ankle

21:09is that hurricane here in the background there?

21:11it is, yeah, yeah

21:12squeeze my hand, don't you?

21:16because of where you are

21:17we are going to be alert in the Coast Guard, okay?

21:19okay, thank you

21:20thank you

21:23the casualty, Gail, is on Traith y Graig V

21:27or Black Rock Sands near Porth Matdog

21:30with husband Ian and their two dogs

21:32she's more than half a mile out on the sands

21:35and can't move

21:41Laura and the Crickath team head to the scene

21:44the information we were given before leaving was that there was a female with a broken ankle on the beach

21:50we were running through all the scenarios on the way

21:53what we're going to do when we get there, we'll stabilise her

21:57running through everything

21:59just going to touch that foot, okay?

22:02check the ankle

22:04it was a bit more severe than what we had anticipated

22:07the ankle really wasn't where it should have been

22:13it was completely the opposite way

22:17I'm not squeamish, no, but it certainly shocked me

22:24it was my trial day to see if I could do virtual meetings on a Friday

22:29about lunchtime, Gail came along and said, let's go for a walk

22:32how do you feel? okay, I'm just going to put my thumb on your forehead there

22:36I'd say the tide was about two, three miles out

22:40so we walked right out to the edge

22:43the dogs were doing their thing and thundering up and down the beach

22:48two dogs came, full pelt

22:51and wiped me out

22:53crash, that was it

22:55I thought she'd hurt her head

22:57and then that's where she said, no, it's my ankle

23:00just going to touch that foot again, okay?

23:02the pain was instant

23:05it wasn't a ten on a scale to me, it was a hundred

23:08he just said, don't look

23:10that was enough for me

23:12I wasn't going to look, I can be quite squeamish

23:15help!

23:17Gail will need strong pain relief

23:19before Laura and her team can move her off the beach

23:22but a major incident in the area means there's high demand on the ambulance service

23:28we tried to get the ambulance there sooner

23:32I called Hollyhead and tried to explain to them that the condition of Gail was potentially worse than they could imagine

23:39seeing Gail in pain, you know, it's awful, you'd rather it was you and not her

23:45you know, you just feel fairly useless

23:49it was getting to a point where I felt really sick

23:52wondering when this pain would go away

23:55from my seafaring days, I generally have a cool head

23:59I can find a way of dealing with the situation

24:02Laura also calls on another local rescue service

24:05Cricketh RNLI

24:08who she thinks might be able to help

24:11The Cricketh lifeboat is here

24:14with a trailer, so they have antennas

24:16but the ambulance has actually just come across the beach

24:19Laura's resourcefulness pays off

24:23as before long, both paramedics and RNLI are on hand

24:27and it'll take all their combined skills to help Gail off the beach

24:32I think the relief on her face when she saw everybody turning up was quite apparent

24:38Breathe normally, three deep breaths as you normally would, yeah?

24:42And then the race was on, we saw that Gail could get the pain relief and get the support

24:47Is that healthy?

24:49Yes, thank you

24:50Good, that's what you needed, wasn't it?

24:52Can we have the Entonox just ready as well, yeah?

24:56It's too bad

24:58Swap it out, Gail, this is better, John

25:00A little deep breaths on her

25:02Gail, can you wiggle your toes slowly?

25:06OK, perfect

25:10I was administered morphine

25:14Then the conversation just turned to how we were actually going to get me off the beach

25:18Local beach patrol jeep is called in to transport Gail to the ambulance waiting at the roadside

25:27The main hazards of driving on the beach is the sheer weight of our vehicle

25:33If you get caught out on soft sand then there's obviously a chance you might get stuck

25:37But before they can move Gail, the paramedics need to put her foot in a splint to avoid causing further injury

25:45Well done, well done, well done, got back into place, well done, keep going up, keep going up

26:01It was quite, quite severe

26:05Well done, well done

26:07So yeah, I did actually look away at the time

26:09Gail's a brave person, I've seen her give birth to two children, so

26:18You did really well

26:21So yes, you keep sucking on that if you've been OK?

26:24I'll take her I started

26:26At that point it was a total relief that it was actually been put back into place

26:30Now the rescue teams can start moving Gail to safety

26:36It's a house in England, it's all planned, it's all planned, it's all planned

26:42It's all planned, it's all planned, it's all planned

26:44It's all planned, it's all planned

26:46And now we'll see

26:48Considering Gail doesn't like attention at one stage, I think we had a dozen of 14 people all around her

26:54Ready, brace, flip

26:56You can't actually put it into words

27:00Or describe

27:02How grateful you are for these people coming to help you

27:08You know, don't you, these things happen, but when it's for you, it's just off the scale

27:13How's this mug feel now?

27:15Secure, better

27:17People doing what they're incredibly well trained to do

27:19And it's humbling to see all of that, you know, on a Friday afternoon

27:29Well then Gail, you're doing well

27:31Two and a half hours after her accident, Gail is finally on her way to hospital in Bangor

27:38To have her broken ankle treated

27:41It was quite a relief then

27:43To see them safely off the beach

27:45And it's back to business as usual for Laura

27:49Having been on the beach, the truck needed a jet wash

27:54Ready for the next call out

27:57And then off home to cook tea for the kids

27:59It's important to not be afraid and to actually call 999 and ask for the Coast Guard

28:07It's what we're here for

28:08It's actually hard to put into words without them

28:13I don't know what we would have done

28:15So thank you

28:19Yeah, just thank you from the bottom of our hearts

28:22To be continued...

28:23To be continued...

28:52Thank you

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