Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team
In what was noted to be a bit of a reversal of traditional roles, a dog was rescued by mountaineers after spending a frigid night in a hollow below a mountaintop.
Five dogs and four hikers were approaching the summit of Fionn Bheinn in the Scottish Highlands near Achnasheen recently, when their dogs fell through a “cornice,” a term for a large buildup of snow on the edge of a cliff face or overhanging ledge.
The hikers rescued four of the imperiled pooches, but Aggie, a 5-year-old spaniel, could not be found. She had fallen into a hollow below the summit.
The next morning, Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team assembled along with Aggie’s owner and a local deer stalker to find her.
It didn’t take them long once they arrived at the point where she fell through the cornice. A rescuer was lowered with a rope down into the hollow where Aggie, no worse for wear after a cold night 3,000 feet up, was dead happy to see someone.
Team leader Iain Nesbitt said “the incident highlighted the risks posed by cornices,” wrote the BBC.
“The ledges of snow form in strong winds and overhang the edges of steep slopes and can be difficult to spot.”
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