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NORTHERN CORRIES OF LIATHACH, 6 DECEMBER 2020

12.07.2020 by Gerry //

December training was a recce of the Northern Corries of Liathach before ascending the north ridge of Spidean a’ Choire Leith and down a gully into Toll a Meitheach.

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FIRST AID TRAINING, 7-8 NOVEMBER 2020

11.09.2020 by Gerry //

2020’s annual first aid training weekend was held in accordance with Covid-19 protocols at the mountain rescue base.

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BEALACH GAOITHE, 24 OCTOBER 2020

10.26.2020 by Gerry //

Night navigation was the focus of a late October training session.

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Torridon Mountain Rescue Team is at Liathach.

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As another year comes to an end we would like to thank you all and all of our partner agencies for all of the help and support over the past year! Stay safe, enjoy the mountains and all the best for 2021.
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Day 18.. Torridon Mountain Rescue Team

When Charlie Rose, the first leader of the Torridon MRT, came to live in Alligin, in 1966, he found that rescues were “organised on an ad hoc basis”. Volunteers were rounded up and deployed under the direction of the local Police officer. In 1971, following the Feith Buidhe Disaster in the Cairngorms, Charlie was asked if a volunteer civilian mountain rescue team could be raised in the Torridon area, with the police budget covering both equipping and maintaining the team.

Initially, our team was composed primarily of local crofters, stalkers and foresters from the surrounding sporting estates as well as the personnel of the Beinn Eighe nature reserve together with some older stalwarts who, while no longer able to go on the hill, did sterling work manning the base radio and providing a courier link between it and the nearest telephone – frequently an all-night vigil. There were relatively few team members who had previous sport-mountaineering experience but the outstanding strength most could bring to any rescue was their intimate knowledge of the local hills and their fitness; they knew the best route to take under any conditions and were undeterred by the vilest weather.

For many years our Torridon Mountain Rescue base was in the local Youth Hostel, effectively in a large cupboard, but we were always so well looked after over our time there. However, a new purpose-built base for the team, in the heart of the village of Torridon, was recently finished.

Torridon MRT cover a large area extending from Achnasheen, in the east, to Applecross, in the west, and from Kinlochewe, in the north, to Lochcarron, in the south. The area includes 17 Munros, including the iconic “Torridon triptych”: Beinn Alligin, Liathach and Beinn Eighe, Scotland’s first National Nature Reserve. We are richly endowed with some of Britain’s most magnificent mountain landscapes, including the trio of Munros around Coire Lair, the remote quartet in the West Monar Forrest, embracing Loch Monar, the massive cliffs of Beinn Bhan, barring entry to the Applecross peninsula, and, most celebrated of all, the Triple Buttress of Coire Mhic Fhearchair, behind Beinn Eighe. These mountains draw climbers and walkers throughout the year. They offer some of Scotland’s most spectacular walking routes and some of our longest and most testing rock and ice climbing routes. Given the terrain it is not surprising that the rescue situations we are faced with can be amongst the most technically demanding to be encountered in Scotland.

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