Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team
More than just mountains
IN AN EMERGENCY…
- Dial 999 or 112
- Ask for POLICE
- State you need MOUNTAIN RESCUE
2025 Team Statistics so far…
Rescue Hours
0
Incidents
0
Exercises
0
Events
0
Whichever way you plan to enjoy the mountains, be #adventuresmart
Ask yourself these three questions first…
- Do I have the right gear?
- Do I know what the weather will be like?
- Am I confident that I have the knowledge and skills for the day?
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Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team…
is a voluntary organisation responsible for covering the Central section of the Brecon Beacons including South Wales’ highest mountain, Pen y Fan at 886m, Cribyn and Corn Du as well as the Ystradfellte waterfalls, Newport, Cardiff and the valleys.
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Callout Update:![]()
Sunday (17 May) brought us our 68th callout of the year, and a notable one it was.![]()
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Sunday started routinely for us, some team members supporting the #welshmtbseries event at Dare Valley Country Park, with other members attending our monthly training day honing technical rescue skills in an area of Rhigos Mountain. ![]()
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Callout #67 occurred soon after 10.30am with a request to assist Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust Paramedics with an injured mountain biker in forestry above Llantrisant. A few team members were deployed from training while training continued for others, and after a short time we had the injured biker on our stretcher with their leg injury and carried them to the ambulance. ![]()
Resumption to training was soon restored.![]()
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Callout #68 occurred at 1.50pm with a call from Dyfed-Powys Police to assist two walkers who’d become stranded while walking in the waterfalls area of Bannau Brycheiniog - Brecon Beacons - National Park, the two had found themselves in difficulty after walking off the formal trails.![]()
Our training was collapsed for the day and as soon as the mountain bike event finished our team members from there responded as well. ![]()
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Thanks to what3words, #PhoneFind, Sarloc Rescue and our Incident Controller on the phone to the reporting person, we quickly had a good indication of their location, yet what we found on arriving at their location surprised us all. ![]()
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One of the walkers had slipped and slid head first down a slope, coming to rest above a 20 feet vertical drop thanks to one of his feet becoming jammed between two tree trunks! ![]()
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Presented with an “upside down” casualty, our first arriving team members quickly set up an abseiling system for one of our team members to access the person, make them safe with ropes and a harness (imagine fitting a harness to someone else who’s flat out facing downwards?) then lower them safely below for an assessment of injuries to be made by one of our Remote Rescue Medics. ![]()
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Suspecting a possible ankle/lower leg injury we treated it as a possible fracture with pain relief and splinting, then a challenging stretcher carry out of the gorge through woodland onto the main trails then out to the vehicles’ rendezvous point. ![]()
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With the help of our #NationalParkWarden friend transport of the casualty and their companion to hospital was sorted. ![]()
From leaving our homes at breakfastime, we returned to base to sort kit, make ready for the next callout, then back at our homes shortly before 10pm.![]()
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A long day out and we send all casualties from Sunday our best wishes for speedy recoveries.