SOS Extreme Rescues Season 2 Episode 11

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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.

00:51My life tends to revolve around the beach and sand.

00:55I think I've got a couple of kilos of sand in my footwell that I need to address when I get home.

01:01Errori's 23 miles of coastline are a popular destination for those looking to relax and unwind.

01:09So it's easy to forget this is a place where things can, and do, go wrong.

01:15You never quite know what you're going to get.

01:19The tides can change, the weather can change, the rocks can be slippy.

01:25With water, when things go wrong, they go wrong quickly.

01:31You can enjoy it, but you've got to respect it as well.

01:35The coast guard here, are you okay?

01:37My wife has fell flat, but hit her left arm, which you think she's broken.

01:41She's shaking.

01:42Quite faint.

01:43Stay put.

01:44It's slippy, you know, just in case she falls and hurts herself or in case you do.

01:47The casualty.

01:48The casualty.

01:49A woman was shot.

01:50A woman was shot.

01:51She was shot sharply from the sea.

01:54The coast guard here, are you okay?

01:56My wife has fell flat, but hit her left arm, which you think she's broken.

02:01She's shaking.

02:02Quite faint.

02:03Stay put.

02:04It's slippy, you know, just in case she falls and hurts herself or in case you do.

02:15The casualty, a woman called Pippa, is on a narrow stretch of beach between Fairborn and Lluin Gwril.

02:22Coast Guard teams from Eberdivie and Balmoth are deployed.

02:31An ambulance is also dispatched.

02:36But there's a problem.

02:38It couldn't have been in a more difficult location.

02:41There's access from north or from south, good, probably a mile and a half.

02:46The granite, bouldery terrain, very, very slippy that night as well.

02:50There's no way of getting an ambulance down onto the beach.

02:54And the teams are also working against the clock.

02:58The tide was coming in and I knew that would be a potential danger.

03:02Where they were, that is submerged by high water.

03:13We walked along the beach and it was a lovely sandy beach there.

03:16And then it became a pebbly beach.

03:19And then it became a rocky beach.

03:21We thought, well, it may be best to turn back.

03:25And unfortunately that's when, when Philippa fell.

03:28One minute we were just walking along the beach.

03:34And the next minute I just couldn't stand up.

03:36I couldn't walk.

03:38A small group of Coast Guard volunteers manages to reach Pippa and John.

03:48The slippery rocks mean it's too dangerous to stretcher her out.

03:52And the paramedics and other Coast Guard volunteers can't reach them, even on foot.

04:07The ship is really slippy down there, just be careful.

04:12They're on the other side of a small headland.

04:16And have already been cut off by the incoming tide.

04:20So what we could do with finding out how she is, how much pain she's in.

04:25Has she got any other medical conditions?

04:28And how cold is she?

04:30I've never seen her in so much pain before.

04:33She very quickly began to get cold and listless.

04:38And that made it the more worrying.

04:39The pain was just overwhelming.

04:44The local lifeboat is also on the scene.

04:48In case it's possible to get Pippa off the rocks by boat.

04:52But it proved dangerous for the lifeboat to get close enough to shore to assist.

04:58There are very big boulders submerged in the water.

05:02It was very windy.

05:04There was a lot of swell.

05:06Everything was against us.

05:07By now, the weather is getting worse.

05:12And the tide is nearly in.

05:15So the teams call in the Coast Guard helicopter.

05:19Five and six.

05:21We're two minutes out, just coasting in.

05:26OK, we'll come for hover over the water and just have a key of your positioning.

05:31You could see the winch man being lowered down.

05:37He was sort of directing the helicopter to bring him slowly and towards the beach.

05:43We knew that she had potentially fractured her arm.

05:53We also knew that she'd been there for some time.

05:55Let's just get it right down round the side there. Let's start warming her.

05:58One of the first things I've got to do really is get on top of her pain.

06:00But I can also splint her fracture as well to stop every movement from hurting.

06:05So, I'll over-lift the arm, because she can punch me.

06:11OK, Pippa.

06:13Right underneath her arm, Pippa.

06:15Three, two, one, lower.

06:17OK, Pippa, doing really well.

06:20Doing really well, my lovely.

06:21Just remember them constantly talking to me, and it was so reassuring.

06:33Bedside manner is always important when you're dealing with patients,

06:36whether that's in hospital or whether it's in the mountainous or outdoor environment.

06:39How's your pain now?

06:42Going to go for a helicopter ride?

06:43You do!

06:44Been on a helicopter before?

06:46Yeah.

06:47OK.

06:48No, not like this.

06:49Not like this?

06:50OK, I hope not.

06:51Twice it's just careless, really.

06:54Nice and easy.

06:55Good work, Gary.

06:56Nice and stepby.

06:59Rescue helicopter 936 needs to winch Pippa off the beach,

07:04so it can take her to the waiting ambulance.

07:06All right, that's fine.

07:09We're good.

07:10We're good.

07:11We're good.

07:12Loads with big rocks.

07:15More rocks!

07:22Now, they just have to find somewhere safe for the helicopter to land.

07:29The ambulance guy can go to the golf course.

07:31936, just looking on the map, stop playing.

07:38Take her off!

07:39Yeah.

07:40All right, then?

07:41I'm with the Alpha 936.

07:42We're just coming up around at the golf course,

07:43so just to take a suitable sight.

07:46Rescue 936, up to the Alpha, all received, out.

07:49When 936 turns up, we're all very relieved.

07:57It makes a world of difference

07:59and people getting the help they need in time.

08:03She probably had to walk about 20 metres, if that,

08:05into the ambulance and she was off.

08:08The agencies worked together very well that night.

08:11We're all trying to achieve the same end goal.

08:14It was a good outcome.

08:17Pippa is taken to hospital in Aberystwyth,

08:21an hour's drive away,

08:23where X-rays reveal she's broken her arm in several places.

08:27I just remember thinking, oh, I'm so grateful.

08:30You think, oh, if that's going to happen,

08:33it's going to be somewhere up a mountain.

08:36You don't expect it on a beach.

08:38It's thinking about all the what-ifs,

08:41even in those places that you would never expect a problem to occur.

08:46For Eruri's rescuers, answering calls for help is a way of life.

09:00And for some, it's in their blood.

09:03Mobile 126 away.

09:05My dad actually was on Aberdewey lifeboat.

09:08He then joined the fire service.

09:10And my granddad was part of Aberdewey Coast Guard.

09:16So over the years, Gareth's seen time and again how it only takes a moment

09:21for a great day to turn into a serious rescue.

09:25That's how it happens. Everyone's having a great time until they're not.

09:28At 893 metres, Cadridris is among the highest mountains in southern Eruri.

09:39And one of the most popular.

09:41Cadridris is where we get the majority of call outs.

09:45It's a notorious hotspot.

09:47There's probably no more than any 200 metre stretch of the whole of the 10k loop

09:52that I've probably not rescued somebody from.

09:58It's a hot Saturday in midsummer when a call comes in.

10:07The injured man was on a birthday outing to Cadridris.

10:11He's about a mile up the Minforth path, one of the main routes to the summit.

10:19Aberdewey search and rescue team are tasked with a job.

10:22Are you guys going to go up this hill road?

10:26On the original call out, it was described as a male with a head injury

10:30who'd fallen off a rock and was bleeding from his head.

10:34Can you just chuck it under the hood on that?

10:35Two team members are already on their way to the casualty.

10:39See you in a bit.

10:40Now Gareth and Esther also set off at the mountain.

10:44The hasty party's job is to get eyes on the casualty and report back if you need more kit to be brought up.

10:52If you need more people to come up the hill to help evacuate someone.

10:56They set off at a brisk pace to reach the casualty as quickly as possible.

11:04It's really warm.

11:06It was a really hot day. The sun was beating down.

11:10And carrying things in the heat is just hard work.

11:14Cheers, thanks.

11:15It's been a long week at work. I was feeling quite tired.

11:20But you do the training and you have the jacket.

11:23And so when people call for help, it's very rare I'll say that I'm not available.

11:30The route takes them up what's known in the team as heart attack steps.

11:36Very tiresome to get up.

11:39You just go fast as you physically can because you don't know how urgently you're needed at the top, especially with a head injury.

11:49Just waiting to confirm exactly what's happening, exactly what kit they need.

11:53And at that point you can then depart.

11:55The first two rescuers have now reached the casualty and have a worrying update.

12:01Yeah, all in the subway.

12:03When he tries to stand up, he goes all wobbly.

12:07The reports that were coming through were that he had collapsed, so lost consciousness.

12:13When someone has had a head injury, they can lose some coordination and motor skills.

12:19And so they're more likely to hurt themselves by falling on the way down.

12:24So the decision from everybody else is that it's going to be a stretcher off.

12:28They now need a third group of volunteers to bring a stretcher up the mountain and to carry the man down.

12:35All right, Dave. Yeah, we'll see you later.

12:38They are a terrible bunch of steps, aren't they?

12:45After a 30-minute walk, Gareth and Esther reach the casualty.

12:49So he fell from standing.

12:53Fell from standing and hit his brow.

12:56Got the cash about 30 mil wide.

12:58He was quite quiet when we got to him and he was very anxious.

13:02Sometimes when you arrive, it's like the pressure of kind of holding it all together is suddenly lifted.

13:12They kind of can relax. They don't need to be the one in charge anymore.

13:16And so quite often you get to people and they cry.

13:19Action.

13:20OK, so I'm going to stick it on that way around.

13:22They're having a very nice day. It was very nice weather.

13:25Suddenly things changed for the worst.

13:27I'm going to stick with us the whole time.

13:29And then the next minute, a lot of people in red jackets and radios clicking around his ears and trying to understand what had gone on.

13:34We always go to, worst case scenario, if he is young, fit and healthy, to collapse out of the blue, for us there's something more underlying and he just needs to see a medical professional.

13:48The team are also worried he might have suffered further injury when he hit his head.

13:54Do you reckon we can hand him over to an ambulance or something at the bottom, just so he can go get a scan?

13:59He might have damaged his neck. He might have damaged his spine.

14:04Can we request an ambulance? He wants to have a scan on his head of her.

14:09By now, team members are arriving with the stretcher.

14:13So, let's get in the stretcher.

14:18Stretching somebody off Cadridris is very tricky.

14:23So you're going to go ahead at that end?

14:26Legs down that end?

14:28Boots are fine, yeah, you're fine.

14:30You might look at an OS map and say, well, it's only two and a half kilometres, but that could tie us up for four hours trying to get someone down.

14:38Are you ready?

14:39Three times.

14:40OK.

14:42Always.

14:44Step on the inside here.

14:46Yes.

14:47This is the evening bit, mate.

14:48If anyone wants to be swapped out this south, by the way.

14:51We'll take interns on the stretcher.

14:56Good teamwork is essential. I mean, we're a mountain rescue team, aren't we?

15:00Loose rocks.

15:02OK, everyone.

15:03Passing it around.

15:04Yeah.

15:06Yeah.

15:09Be a bit more attentive about a head up along this section.

15:13If it's a head injury, the head needs to be inclined.

15:16So, like, feet down, head up if the turn.

15:19That's a bit too low for me.

15:21And in order to do that, someone needs to be monitoring that and communicating it to all the people that are holding the stretcher.

15:27And I drop down my end.

15:29There you go, ready?

15:30Popping over.

15:33They've reached one of the steepest sections of the route.

15:39It's a bit like an obstacle course.

15:41Loose, blue strap. Just watch your hook trip.

15:44You can't fit two people either side of a stretcher and the stretcher itself.

15:51Stretcher coming through.

15:52Stay still here.

15:53Stay still here.

15:54Stay still here.

15:56Let me just...

15:57Keep moving now.

15:58Pass down.

15:59OK, on it goes.

16:01Can we just stop this here?

16:03Any more below?

16:05OK, wait for...

16:07See ya.

16:09Eventually, they make it to gentler ground and back to the car park.

16:13The ambulance hasn't been allocated to us yet.

16:16With no sign of an ambulance coming any time soon,

16:19the injured man's friends decide to drive him to hospital themselves.

16:25What started off with them,

16:27to be quite a nice little walk up in South Snowdonia,

16:31turned into something very different.

16:34You know, people stuck 1,000, 1,500 metres up on a mountain

16:39and they can't get down, they've got a real problem.

16:41No one expects these things to happen,

16:44and when mountain rescue turn up,

16:47I think suddenly things can feel a bit real

16:49in a way that they hadn't beforehand.

16:51There's a reason that we're in the team.

16:53And the best bit is doing... is doing a call-out,

16:57because then you get to actually help people.

16:58Even once help is on the way, things can take an unexpected turn.

17:16I've got eight.

17:20Call-out's always unpredictable.

17:22Can you confirm that you still need to stretch your party

17:25to come up the hill, over?

17:27When it goes wrong, it usually goes quite wrong.

17:30Affirmative, I've got two more people on the way, over.

17:32It's a Sunday evening when a call comes in to North Wales Police.

17:46I'm on the mountain near Griffin with my father.

17:50We're in the car, so we'll find the navigation difficult.

17:53OK.

17:55I'll pass this to North to rescue.

17:5672-year-old Bernie has been out walking all day with his son,

18:03but they're now lost in the mist.

18:06Who's this?

18:08OK, mate, it's Kim speaking.

18:10Team leader Kim from Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue picks up the call.

18:17Have we got the latest grid reference?

18:20OK.

18:22Initially, we've started to talk them off the hill.

18:26Right.

18:27OK.

18:29We do have a bit of technology that allows us to know

18:31where someone's phone is if they give us permission,

18:33and so that can be really useful when it comes to guiding someone down.

18:37Cheers, ta-da, ta-da.

18:39That was working.

18:41We'd managed to get them walking in the right direction.

18:45But the weather was deteriorating, nearly dark,

18:49and they were slowing down.

18:53So Kim decides to send help.

18:57We're going to go kind of to the left and go up the spur.

19:03I sent Dan and Adam straight up the miners' path towards the casualties.

19:09But to find the path into Corm Trevarny is quite difficult,

19:16and there's a distinct possibility that casualties are going to walk past it.

19:19So I deployed a second two people, Rick and Luca, up a ridge line to catch them if they missed the path.

19:29The tour teams head out on different paths, towards the lost father and son's last known location, on Glyderbach.

19:37Who are covering the two most likely places that they would be.

19:48The navigation in the mountains can get really challenging,

19:51especially when it gets dark, when the weather comes in.

19:56So it's not often that we need to use our maps, because we've got hotspots that people get stuck in and we know exactly where we're going to.

20:03Every now and again, we need to use our mountaineering skills and navigation to find people.

20:08What were you saying of it? It's a good idea, Steve.

20:10Yeah, it's not good.

20:1110 metres.

20:14I've been up there before and knew where we wanted to go, but because of the weather, just got lost.

20:22See, 500 metres is a bad level.

20:27He got a bit worried and I said, well, don't worry.

20:30I said, we'll contact Mountain Rescue, get some advice from them.

20:33They said, go here, go there, and we carried on walking.

20:39But the weather got worse and tried a half hour, I suppose, we was walking.

20:44Just crack on up there?

20:45Yeah.

20:46They said, well, stay where you are and we can get to you within a couple of hours.

20:54We'd lost contact with the casualties at this point.

20:56I don't know if their phone had died.

20:58Hello?

20:59We were making our way to their last known point and we didn't know whether they'd stayed there or whether they moved around.

21:08It's really steep around there in different places and if you don't know the way down, you can end up on a really nasty path.

21:15Hello?

21:16Can you hear that as well?

21:17Yeah.

21:18Do you call Mountain Ressie?

21:19How are we going?

21:20Peace out.

21:21We take contact.

21:22Ninety minutes after setting off, Dan and Adam find the lost walkers.

21:38Give Luca a call.

21:39He should be pretty close to you.

21:40Over.

21:41Here you go.

21:42There's some gloves in the pocket.

21:43They're flasks.

21:44I've got a flask of, like, warm squash.

21:45It's like, it's the best thing.

21:46Let's get this off.

21:47Yeah.

21:48Where are you feeling at?

21:49Yeah, they're fine.

21:50So we'll get the headquarters on.

21:51We're happy to continue without your support.

21:52Thanks, Rick.

21:53It means Kim can stand down Luca and Rick, who are still out searching the other possible route.

22:08They head back to base.

22:10Just a little bit.

22:11Yeah, I got you.

22:12There you go.

22:13Yeah.

22:14Good to go.

22:15Meanwhile, Dan and Adam start to lead Bernie and his son off the mountain.

22:22It's just this little bit and then it flattens out nice.

22:26It started off really well, but it was obvious that Bernie was very stiff and clearly very

22:31tired after a long day.

22:32It doesn't matter how slowly.

22:34We just keep moving.

22:37Adam kind of stayed nice and close to kind of giving that one-to-one support, showing him

22:42where to put his feet for the best grip.

22:44You can stop and have as many rests if you need any.

22:47An old knee injury is causing Bernie problems.

22:50Never know where ever go like that.

22:52They just, like, they kind of shaky.

22:53Oh, no.

22:54It's just gone solid.

22:55Oh.

22:56Oh.

22:57Oh.

22:58How you doing?

22:59Okay?

23:00That?

23:01Yeah, I'm all here.

23:03Right?

23:04It's just me.

23:05Me, I done.

23:06Double done.

23:07It's 11.30pm.

23:0972-year-old Bernie has now been out in the mountains for 16 hours, and the weather conditions

23:16are getting worse by the minute.

23:18You didn't hurt anything when you went down, did you?

23:20Oh, you mean a knee?

23:21I mean a knee.

23:22Which knee is it?

23:23Right knee?

23:24This one.

23:25One hand done.

23:26Okay.

23:27That'll help you.

23:28Oh, that'll be up.

23:29Despite his fall, Bernie feels able to carry on walking.

23:35Do it?

23:36Come round this side, yeah?

23:37Oh.

23:38Oh.

23:39Oh.

23:40Oh, Dan.

23:41Went down, drove me shoulder into the ground and hit me ribs near that crack.

23:53That was very painful.

23:55He landed on a rock behind him.

23:57Oh.

23:58Where did he land on him?

24:01On here?

24:02Yeah.

24:03Just there.

24:04The impact of Bernie's ribs has left him in severe pain.

24:10Team member Dan, a trained paramedic, takes a look.

24:15How's all with you?

24:16The ribs can bleed.

24:17It could be quite sharp.

24:18It could have damaged the tissue underneath.

24:21Did you raise his arm?

24:22Can you raise his arm up?

24:23Oh, no.

24:24Just put on it.

24:25No more than that.

24:26Oh, man.

24:27And if you start to affect someone's breathing, that can get really serious really quickly.

24:31Just take it easy.

24:32We can feel something there now.

24:34Yeah.

24:35Yeah.

24:36You suddenly feel very vulnerable.

24:37You yourself, as a rescue team, are very far from help.

24:41Just move your hand in a sec.

24:42Is that OK?

24:43There, there, there.

24:44Oh.

24:45We hadn't set off expecting there to be any injuries.

24:48No, I'm holding it over.

24:49Just a nice, deep breath if you can.

24:51So when, of course, we were now dealing with an injury, we didn't really have much in

24:56a way of equipment to deal with that.

24:57We didn't have any medication to take away Bernie's pain.

25:00And we didn't have anything to be able to assess that injury.

25:03The unexpected turn of events means getting Bernie off the mountain is now a lot more complicated.

25:10He's fallen over and Dan reckons he's broken a rib.

25:17It's midnight now and sadly I've got to phone everybody up, get them out of bed and start

25:23putting a plan, Plan B into operation.

25:26Hiya, we've got an incident that's been going on for quite a while now.

25:30I thought the quickest and easiest way was to see if we could get the Coast Guard helicopter.

25:35Would they pick this one up?

25:38The conditions definitely were deteriorating.

25:42It was sideways rain, the cloud was really thick and it was going to be really challenging

25:47for a helicopter to be able to get into us, but I was hoping that they might give it a go.

25:51If the helicopter can reach them, Bernie could be on his way to hospital within 20 minutes.

25:57Yeah, that was my concern as well. I think the front's hit us.

26:01And to be honest, it's worse here now.

26:04The cloud was so bad over Carnarvon that the helicopter wasn't even able to lift off

26:08and to try to come to us.

26:10Kim now has to go for Plan C, which means sending more team members up to help,

26:16including Rick and Luca, who've only just got back to base.

26:21That's the really bad end, right?

26:23I don't know, I've got to think about what that means.

26:25I hadn't thought of any good news yet.

26:28We knew at that point that it was going to be mountain rescues,

26:31stretchering and walking up, and it takes a long time for people to get to us.

26:34Although more team members in a stretcher are on their way...

26:38We have a sticky rock coming up now. We have a step.

26:40Dan and Adam decide to keep trying to walk Bernie further down to meet them.

26:45A little step now, that's it. Nice and steady.

26:49The longer you stay still on the mountains, you're not generating any energy and any heat,

26:55and so you get cold really quickly.

26:58There we go. Well done.

27:01It's nearly 2am when the stretcher party finally reaches Bernie.

27:07I just want to get him loaded up, Don.

27:09Yep.

27:10With your hand.

27:11He's going to have one gram of this.

27:13It was really good to see the torch lights of the other people making their way up the mountain.

27:17Got it?

27:18We were able to get some medication for Bernie to make him feel a little bit more comfortable

27:22whilst we got the stretcher set up and got him ready to move off down the hill quite quickly.

27:26He was in a big sleeping bag type of thing and it was quite warm.

27:37I mean, that was nice to lay down. I could have gone to sleep probably if it wasn't painful.

27:4318 hours after setting out on his walk, Bernie is on a stretcher and can be carried to safety.

27:51Yeah, it's good there are people like that. They want to help, yeah.

27:57We're actually right up the creek, I think.

28:02So it was a rescue that got harder and harder as we went along.

28:05It was not quite what we expected.

28:09It was a rescue of twists and turns, wasn't it?

28:12Even though mountain rescue turn up doesn't mean that you're out the woods then,

28:15you're still in a very dangerous position.

28:18The mountains are there to be enjoyed, but if you do go out, be prepared.

28:26Sometimes things change quite rapidly.

28:29At least not each way.

28:30At least not when they areделish powys.

28:40There's probably nobody will get loads of much

28:45at the project here.

28:49As we go back to the project, thealamus Ledovsky.

28:51The story says to Rocky.

28:53We're walking over here to visit.

28:54Carmilla.

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