{"id":129519,"date":"2023-09-04T23:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=129519"},"modified":"2023-09-04T23:56:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:56:01","slug":"four-police-officers-are-saved-by-mountain-rescue-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/four-police-officers-are-saved-by-mountain-rescue-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Four police officers are saved by mountain rescue teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Four police officers are saved by mountain rescue teams in eight-and-a-half-hour ordeal after they got into trouble climbing famous peak on the Isle of Skye<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The weather was so severe that a search and rescue helicopter had to turn back\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four police officers had to be rescued in appalling weather conditions from a Scottish island peak.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was so bad that a search and rescue helicopter had to turn back.<\/p>\n<p>It took a mountain rescue team eight-and-a-half hours to get the two men and two women to safety.<\/p>\n<p>The off-duty members of Police Scotland were climbing on the Cuillin Ridge on Skye when they got into difficulty on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>A Coastguard rescue helicopter from Stornoway was scrambled to 3,097ft Sgurr Dubh Mor just after 8pm to assist the officers, who are believed to be based in Inverness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/23\/75057349-12480407-image-a-45_1693867162221.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The off-duty members of Police Scotland were climbing on the Cuillin Ridge on Skye (pictured) when they got into difficulty on Saturday night (File image)<\/p>\n<p>The epic rescue mission started when the group made an emergency call at 6.45pm when they became stuck on a rockface. But terrible weather conditions hampered the rescue and it is believed it was not until after 7am on Sunday they were taken off the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Five members of Skye Mountain Rescue Team reached the summit at 2am, finding the officers cold and wet. Neil Urquhart, leader of Skye MRT, said the officers had got caught out by the conditions and the rescue helicopter had been delayed by an hour because of a technical issue.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;The cloud was too low and the winds too strong for the helicopter to carry out the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our team members had a very long, wet night on the hill. They did a great job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/23\/75057351-12480407-image-a-46_1693867169068.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Coastguard rescue helicopter from Stornoway was scrambled to 3,097ft Sgurr Dubh Mor just after 8pm to assist the officers, who are believed to be based in Inverness (File image)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The police group had climbed up the Dubh&#8217;s slabs from Coruisk but had been unable to find their way back down. They were well equipped and had reached the summit, but then they got caught out by the worsening conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Setting off just before 10.30pm, the team reached the summit at 2am, and found the cold, wet climbers after a short descent to the North.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The rain was now relentless, getting heavier and heavier all the time. Visibility was down to just a few metres, leading to difficult route finding, as well as the team having to negotiate swollen streams and slippery rocks. But by carefully retracing their steps, all were back at Glen Brittle by 7am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The officers were friends who were off duty and simply got caught out by the conditions.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12480407\/Four-police-officers-saved-mountain-rescue-teams-eight-half-hour-ordeal-got-trouble-climbing-famous-peak-Isle-Skye.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four police officers are saved by mountain rescue teams in eight-and-a-half-hour ordeal after they got into trouble climbing famous peak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four police officers are saved by mountain rescue teams - 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