SOS Extreme Rescues Season 2 Episode 10

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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.

00:23Saving lives.

00:28I like it down there.

00:30In a landscape like no other.

00:34That's a proper job there.

00:52There's always a yearning to get out into the snow. It's just got a different feel to it.

00:58The first snowfall of winter and Errori's mountains are transformed into a wonderland of white.

01:06It's just a very magical place to be. It's a wonderful feeling, making your first footsteps and breaking the snow.

01:16All mountaineers love the snow. It just adds that extra element of beauty to the mountains.

01:26But this beauty comes with very real risks, making the stakes of every decision far higher.

01:40Snow always adds an extra layer of difficulty to it. The conditions get harsher and it's just more of a challenge.

01:48And there's one place you definitely don't want to get stranded in the snow.

01:58It's one of the most serious places you would go as a mountaineer.

02:04It's a kind of one foot ridge with drops of 300-400 metres either side.

02:12This is the proper narrow bit, isn't it?

02:14If something was to go wrong, it would go very wrong.

02:18If you were to trip and not hold on, you would have potential fatal injuries.

02:28It's an icy morning at the end of November.

02:31A climber is stuck on the snow-covered east ridge of Crib Goch.

02:41He's well kitted out for the conditions, but is suffering from vertigo, a type of severe dizziness.

02:51Volunteers from Llanberis Mountain Rescue team head out.

02:55We'll be with the casualty within the hour.

03:00Is it just one guy up there?

03:01Yeah, yeah.

03:02It is a place where we get fatalities.

03:04We might get one, maybe two on Crib Goch a year.

03:07It can be a dangerous area.

03:15There's no time to lose.

03:17And these conditions, there's a real risk of hypothermia.

03:20Minus pit to out here with wind chill, minus index pimp.

03:24And it'll take the team around an hour to reach him.

03:29Now, it's actually starting to sound here now.

03:34I can't see the hills.

03:36Base coordinator Elvin decides to see if the Coast Guard helicopter is available to help.

03:42We've got a team who've dispatched.

03:47It's in a relatively safe place at the moment.

03:50The nearest available helicopter is put on standby.

03:54But it's 103 miles away.

03:57And with another snowstorm due to move in, it may not reach them.

04:02For now, put it on hold and we'll call you back if we decide we need an aircraft.

04:07They must do their best to get him out on foot.

04:16There's definitely lots of snow quite deep in places.

04:19It's tricky to then understand what terrain is under your feet.

04:24If no one else has been on the ridge, there aren't any footsteps to follow.

04:28So, you have to be better at that navigation and route finding yourself.

04:33So, they won't be too long before they're with you.

04:43The 15 to 20 minutes max.

04:45How are you doing?

05:03Yeah?

05:04Okay.

05:05My name's Richard.

05:06I'm in the rescue team.

05:08When I got to him, he was looking a bit shriveled and a bit disheartened.

05:14I want to stand up. I keep getting dizzy.

05:16No worries. Okay.

05:18He was telling me that he was going to paraglide from the summit of Canada again.

05:22And had lost his confidence.

05:24We're just putting helmet and harness and securing him.

05:27And then we'll start to do a lower from the middle of the rock step, alright?

05:31He was disappointed.

05:33And he would be.

05:34You're going to do this massive adventure.

05:37I mean, how glorious would it be to walk up and over Ku Klok in the snow and then fly off?

05:45It's what dreams are made of, isn't it?

05:48We've got one, two, three.

05:50We've got at least a train line in if we want it for up here.

05:52Yeah, it's more than enough to get down.

05:54It's really brave to identify that you shouldn't carry on.

05:59He made a really good call on that.

06:01It's this decision that might have saved his life.

06:06Knowing your limits.

06:08People need to stop and turn back if it gets to that point where they think it's too dangerous.

06:14Now the casualty is secured, they need to get him safely down the mountain.

06:19They just get moving a bit.

06:22And they'll warm you up slightly.

06:24More footsteps.

06:25And pinch of your hand.

06:26That's it.

06:28They put on a harness in case he faints or slips.

06:32So you're safe.

06:33We're just going to put another rope on because, to be sure, to be sure.

06:36But there's more to this rescue than just the casualty's physical safety.

06:42So we're going to go together and take it nice and slow.

06:45They'll be so stuck in their sense of worry that they'll lose the ability to walk.

06:52It's just having that calming voice to stop someone and actually get them to look up and look at the view and just smile and take a deep breath.

07:01So we're going to come slightly to the left.

07:10At last, they're on the move.

07:12And the rescue helicopter can be stood down.

07:15We'll be done at a certain within the hour.

07:17But thanks very much for your assistance that we're on.

07:19That's great.

07:20OK.

07:22I still see the dead.

07:24You never want to put people off.

07:26You come to the winter conditions because it's absolutely beautiful and it's a different adventure.

07:32How are you doing, man?

07:34With the casualty now safely on his way down, the team can take a moment to appreciate the stunning surroundings for themselves.

07:43Being on Cribroach in the snow, for me, there's nothing better.

07:47It's my favourite mountain.

07:49Oh, beautiful views now.

07:52You're going out with people that you get on with, love all the things that you love doing.

07:58Oh, there goes my helmet.

07:59And then just helping someone get off the mountain safely.

08:05As the snow melts in Erary's mountains, huge volumes of water swell its streams and rivers.

08:25It means all the area's rescue teams are on high alert, including North Wales Fire and Rescue.

08:33In recent years, the role of the fire service has changed.

08:37We attend a lot more water incidents now.

08:39We could get mobilised to somebody stuck in a river, a car stuck in water.

08:46Water is big and powerful.

08:50It can change everything in a matter of minutes.

08:53This was the picture in Kapil Killig in Conwy, where wind gusts of more than 80 miles an hour have been recorded with flood water swamping farmland.

09:07The Met Office are calling the storm a multi-hazard event.

09:12Storm burr caused significant and widespread flooding.

09:16That area in particular around Llan Roost is renowned for being a flood plain.

09:24We had this triad of snow melt, high tide, and then lots of rain falling.

09:30Which caused the river level to be about one to one and a half meters higher than it would normally be.

09:38People can get caught out, particularly where they're near river banks.

09:43One minute you're walking along and everything's fine, and the next all of a sudden you are isolated.

09:49Kathy and her husband Brian were visiting family near Llan Roost when the storm hit.

09:59It had rained most of the day.

10:02But at about four o'clock the wind had eased and the rain was stopping.

10:09Brian set off with Nell for a walk, just on the path he would normally do towards a footpath into Llan Roost.

10:16About 15, 20 minutes later, I thought, because the rain had stopped, I'd go out for my run.

10:23So I got as far as the, just past the playground, and noticed there was water on the path.

10:30I could see somebody coming up the lane, and he said ten minutes ago that water wasn't there.

10:38I phoned Brian, I told him about the flood, and he said, alright, he was on his way back, he'll be there soon.

10:43He'd not gone as far as the river, he was surprised to hear that there was flood water well away from the river.

10:51I phoned probably about ten minutes later, and he wasn't answering the phone then.

10:58OK.

10:59After another 15 minutes, Cathy finds their dog, Nell. But there's no sign of Brian. She immediately calls 999.

11:11We knew that there was going to be some flooding within that area.

11:24It's one of those incidents that fills you with dread.

11:27The priority is getting the right people with the right skills and experience to the scene as quickly as possible.

11:34We deployed with the flood rescue kit.

11:38We realised that we were actually surrounded by water.

11:41Torrential rain, really, really strong winds.

11:44Time is the critical factor there, in terms of survivability.

11:49Brian's last known location was on Gowers Road, a mile-long track running through the fields between Trefriw and Llan Rost.

11:58Can you get us the foot pump out of the back, mate?

12:04So I've got a team down there working back up, and I've got a team working from here going back down.

12:11And I've got a team that's just about to go over to the sewage bars and do the field.

12:15It really is a race against the clock to cover key areas, so that's our tracks, our points of interest, our railway lines, our hedge lines.

12:22OK, I'm going to just update my team maps to try and maximise chances of a rescue.

12:29The immediate search area covers over a square mile, which the fire and mountain rescue teams have divided between them.

12:37When we have a number of agencies at incidents like this, we do have a coordinated approach to the searching.

12:45It's really important how we work together closely.

12:49We will exploratory down there and see what we can get.

12:53Fire have got one service at the vets here that we're going to try and get back in that.

12:57And motivate them, moving them back in there if they can.

12:59At that bridge, it's shoulder height.

13:02We're thinking with the speed of the river that we might go and reposition down towards Snowdonia and Delgarog,

13:08and then start searching the river in a southerly direction against the flow.

13:13Coast Guard Helicopter 936 has also been called in to search from the air.

13:20They could come along and help us with some thermal imaging camera.

13:24From above, they could relay to us where they'd seen that our crews had searched.

13:29Coast Guard Helicopter has done its search pattern that we've asked it to do.

13:33Information is coming at different times from different sources.

13:36And now he's concentrating in that area now.

13:41Despite the methodical search, there's still no sign of Brian.

13:46And conditions are getting increasingly dangerous.

13:50The water level is rising on a country lane.

13:54One minute you could see the hedge and the next minute you couldn't.

13:57Fast flowing water can drag debris along with it.

14:02You might have trees that have come down further upstream moving through the water.

14:06Paddling the raft wasn't possible because of the cross flow and the very spiky hedge.

14:12With the wind and the water movement, we can't actually make progress safely.

14:19We had to put a swimmer across with a rope to allow other people to transit across that deep water section.

14:29The river levels had come up three or four metres, I would say.

14:33The roads were well obscured.

14:35Gates were underwater.

14:37So there was a lot of unknown risks underneath the water.

14:40You're dealing with pitch black, flood water, there were waves coming up.

14:46So it is not without significant risk.

14:53They do not believe that it is feasible or safe to actually cross into the fields and search through there.

15:04The teams have now been searching the flooded area for more than three hours.

15:08Without success.

15:11You try to be positive about these things, but when you realise the time scale and the conditions, you know that it is less likely to be a good outcome.

15:21The risk involved at the moment, emergency services either in the water or at once or two.

15:28Lack of any daylight.

15:30The likelihood of somebody surviving in water beyond 90 minutes is quite slim.

15:34The difficult decision is made to call off the search for the night.

15:40Having to make that decision, it's done with a very, very heavy heart.

15:46We know that we've been searching for somebody.

15:50We have to all make that decision collectively.

15:52We've gone from a rescue phase now to a recovery phase where the incidents hand over to the North Wales Police.

15:59We will always go above and beyond to try and rescue and save somebody's life.

16:05Unfortunately, it's not always the case.

16:06They tried so hard. They tried until, I think, gone nine o'clock.

16:18I must have made the call to the emergency services just before five.

16:21And they tried a very long time into the night.

16:28And you know the impact you're having on families and friends.

16:33That's not lost on any of us.

16:44The teams return in daylight to keep searching,

16:47even though their hopes of a rescue are past.

16:52On the Sunday morning, the police divers found our casualty.

17:00And we were able to recover him to the edge of the floodwater.

17:05He wasn't by the river.

17:08He was in the fields and didn't think that it would come up that fast.

17:12Well, I didn't think, didn't know that anything like that could happen so quickly.

17:19He would never, ever, ever have gone out if he thought he was going to hurt himself

17:25and put other people at risk.

17:27That was not him at all.

17:29My family and I, we'd really like to thank everybody.

17:42We're really grateful to the tremendous effort they made

17:47to find Brian and to give him back to us.

17:50The old Chilgallon. To them all.

17:53In such a fast-changing environment, rescuers must sometimes respond to calls,

17:57despite not knowing exactly what the emergency is.

17:58The more information that you've got, the more informed your decisions can be.

18:02Mobile ones should be now down in your location.

18:03I don't know how far you are off the vehicle over.

18:04If you don't know anything, then in such a fast-changing environment,

18:09rescuers must sometimes respond to calls, despite not knowing exactly what the emergency is.

18:19The more information that you've got, the more informed your decisions can be.

18:24Mobile ones should be now down in your location.

18:27I don't know how far you are off the vehicle over.

18:29If you don't know anything, then in some senses you maybe have to assume the worst.

18:36And this is where the team members' experience can make all the difference.

18:41I work as an outdoor instructor in Snowdonia.

18:45Just coming round the side of the tops.

18:49Having that local area knowledge is so helpful when you do go out in poor visibility.

18:55You can find your way a lot more easily.

18:59You've got the lovely classic lake at the bottom. You've got a pebbly beach at one end.

19:15It's very steep, very rocky. There's lots of little gullies.

19:22So it makes it incredibly difficult to search for people in that terrain.

19:25It's a frosty January evening.

19:29Shouts for help have been reported in the mountains above Coomit Dwell, near a route called Creeb O'Clock Gwyn D, or Seniors Ridge.

19:43Hey, Albie. Did you come in on this call out?

19:48Let's go. Jacket!

19:50Our Gwyn Valley Mountain Rescue is called in to investigate.

19:54Is this worth giving you as the advance party? Yes.

20:01Some passers-by had heard what they thought were shouts for help, and that was all we knew.

20:07But is it really a casualty in distress?

20:11There is another possible explanation.

20:14It could well be goats.

20:16We get quite a lot of false alarms because we have a lot of goats that sound a lot like people shouting for help.

20:28The goats is a sort of never-ending nemesis of the team.

20:34But we can't not respond to them.

20:38We always go.

20:39The team leave base and soon meet more walkers who've heard shouting.

20:48Did you pass them? Yes, yes.

20:50We had a couple of people show us on a map where they thought the people were.

20:54I think they are kind of like over here.

20:58Had kind of five or more reports of flashing lights and cries for help.

21:03We've just spoken to another person on the footpath who's given us a sort of better fix.

21:10But no, very little to go off.

21:13No idea of the number of people involved.

21:15No idea of injuries.

21:17We carried in a full medical kit in case it was quite a nasty call-out.

21:22The team are still a 90-minute walk from the area where the cries were heard.

21:27And in the darkness, the steep-gullied mountainsides will be hard to search.

21:32We are at least an hour and a half from now.

21:35Is it worth radioing to see if the helicopter is available?

21:39They call in the Coast Guard rescue helicopter.

21:42But before it even arrives...

21:45Help!

21:49Anyone help!

21:52This is rescue!

21:55Stay where you are!

21:58Ah!

22:01Well done.

22:03We have had voice comms with the casualty party, so none the wiser as to where they are.

22:09Let's see what the heli manages.

22:11The helicopter is able to fly but not actually come in and winch or do anything because the terrain was too complex.

22:24Heli's really low.

22:25If they got any closer, the risk of knocking these two boys off with 20 tonne of helicopter and its downdraft was fairly high.

22:37The helicopter can't see them, so stands down.

22:40I think that's them tagging out.

22:43OK.

22:45So, we were back to very old-school searching of just looking for people with our eyes on the side of the cliff.

22:53Do you want me to go first if you...

22:56Oh, yeah, I'll let you re-trog.

22:59We were quite lucky in that we had Mo with us.

23:02She knows that ridge, like the rest of us know our back gardens.

23:06I'm assuming you've worked this quite a lot of times.

23:08A lot of times.

23:09It's already been several hours since the first calls for help were heard and temperatures are plummeting.

23:26Everyone doing OK?

23:28It was down to freezing because we were dealing with verglas.

23:33Lots of ice.

23:34A very, very fine layer of ice over the top of everything.

23:41Anything, especially rocks, become lethal.

23:47So, we need to get on top of this, maybe a little bit higher.

23:50Two team members head to the lake to see if they can spot the casualties from there.

23:56You can see the car past the end of your lights and it looks like you are a problem over.

24:00We were able to see where the casualties head torches were and we were essentially guiding them into their location.

24:08All received. Great spot.

24:10Let's get to there and see.

24:12Yeah, that works.

24:14Hello!

24:16We had to keep finding a high vantage point where we could take a peek in and then assess could we get down any closer or did we need to try a different strategy.

24:28We are going to see above the casualties within 50 meters of them.

24:34Hello!

24:36Hello!

24:38Oh, hello!

24:40Come and shine a big torch where I am.

24:42It was definitely a relief when we could see their lights, hear them and start thinking about how can we now get them off.

24:51Can you give me the bottom of the rope?

24:53Because we were only a small, hasty party, we didn't have lots and lots of ropes, we just had one.

25:02To know whether we would be able to reach them on one rope's length was a bit of a gamble.

25:08Lower and slow.

25:10Fingers crossed we can get there.

25:12If we wanted more ropes, it would have taken another couple of hours for those to arrive.

25:18You can go a bit quicker if you want to.

25:21She went off scrambling down in the direction of these boys.

25:29All stop, all stop. That's me with the casualties.

25:35I've never been so happy to see someone in my life.

25:38It was really good to see that they were doing okay.

25:48Wow, you got a sore throat from shouting. That might have just saved your life.

25:52They were on a sort of sofa-sized ledge on the side of the cliff.

25:58They had a big drop below them.

26:01Right, pop one arm through there for me.

26:03Disarm through there.

26:05Mo fits them with harnesses for the climb back up.

26:08So, you're the leader.

26:11But with only a single rope, it's risky.

26:15Jack's in the middle.

26:17And I'm at the back, okay?

26:19It's not great to have lots and lots of people hanging on one rope.

26:25Because if one person falls off, you don't want them to pull the other people off as well.

26:30So, go up on that little ledge.

26:33I think that's where the knowledge and experience comes in.

26:36And go left with your feet on that ledge towards the grass.

26:40Go on, you got it.

26:43If you've got that judgement to be able to know what's safe, but not gold-sandered.

26:47You then are able to execute it in a way that is okay.

26:53Yep.

26:55Well done, folks.

26:57You can't always do gold-sandered. Often it's brown-standered.

27:01We shouldn't sell ourselves as brown-standered, otherwise no-one will want to be rescued.

27:07Bless you then, thank you.

27:09Thank you so much.

27:11Now, it's a two-hour walk back down.

27:15Nearly midnight.

27:16Nearly midnight.

27:18Probably looking for you for about three and a half hours.

27:20Wow.

27:22They'd gone for a big day out, and their phones had died.

27:25I think they stopped for some refreshments, put the bag down, and the bag has rolled off the edge of the cliff.

27:32And they've followed it, and they've ended up getting onto a ledge, and they've looked behind and gone,

27:36we can't get back up this. We definitely can't get down this.

27:40If you go where Robin is, it's much better.

27:43If it had been me, and I'd lost the bag there, I'd have looked, I'd have peeked over the side and I'd have gone.

27:49No chance.

27:50Really icy.

27:51Yeah, follow me.

27:52I think if these two guys had been there all night, it might not have been such a good outcome for them.

27:59Just a dying mate.

28:00The fact that they were able to shout and get some attention from passers-by probably saved their lives.

28:10Oh, it's nice and warm in here.

28:11This is an old school rescue, feeling your way around the mountains.

28:16Or better, if somebody makes a call, then we go.

28:21There is no decision, because for the one that isn't a goat, it could be the one that saved someone's life.

28:41There is no decision to be by God.

28:42It could be the one that saves someone with aikal on their life.

28:46...

28:54What's happening on Earth?

28:55It's a joke.

28:57It's a joke.

29:00It's a joke.

29:02It's a joke.

29:04It's a joke.

29:06It's not a joke.

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