{"id":502649,"date":"2026-01-09T01:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502649\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:42:18","slug":"climber-with-hypothermia-airlifted-off-glencoe-mountain-gets-bus-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502649\/","title":{"rendered":"Climber with hypothermia airlifted off Glencoe mountain gets bus home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GlencoeGlencoe Mountain Rescue Team<\/p>\n

The climber was airlifted from Glencoe on Saturday after getting into difficulty<\/p>\n

A climber was rescued from a mountain in Glencoe with hypothermia as the country was battered by wintry weather \u2013 but still managed to make the bus home.<\/p>\n

The man, who has not been named, was airlifted after becoming stuck on steep, freezing terrain on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team said the climber was “mildly hypothermic” when they found him and lowered him into position for a helicopter uplift using ropes.<\/p>\n

Volunteers later gave him a lift back to Glencoe village in time to catch the Ember E4 service in the direction of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

\"GlencoeGlencoe Mountain Rescue Team<\/p>\n

The climber made it off the mountain in time to catch his bus in the direction of Edinburgh<\/p>\n

The rescue was one of five call outs the team responded to over the weekend.<\/p>\n

A yellow weather warning for snow and ice covering much of northern Scotland was in place on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Met Office had warned blizzard conditions were likely at higher elevations.<\/p>\n

\"GlencoeGlencoe Mountain Rescue Team<\/p>\n

A yellow weather alert had warned of blizzard conditions on exposed hills<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a group of three people were climbing when one fell and sustained head and wrist injuries.<\/p>\n

Two other climbers who were nearby abseiled down to assist the person – who was then airlifted to hospital.<\/p>\n

The two climbers were helped off the hill by the mountain rescue team.<\/p>\n

\"GlencoeGlencoe Mountain Rescue Team<\/p>\n

Another climber was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after suffering head and wrist injuries<\/p>\n

Andy Nelson, team leader with Glencoe MRT, said it was not unusual for winter climbers to be out in numbers during the new year period.<\/p>\n

However he said “loose rock” caused by a lack of thawing of the snowy conditions could be blamed for the small spike in incidents.<\/p>\n

He said: “Unless you get that thaw and then the refreeze, the rock doesn’t really bind together on the mountain crags, so you could attribute some of the accidents to that.<\/p>\n

“The people who have been rescued, they haven’t made poor choices, they have been a bit unlucky really.<\/p>\n

“A lot of the paths lower down are more icy than they are higher up, so even a sort of donder up the bottom 300m (984ft) of a mountain could be more treacherous.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We would just advise everyone to be well prepared for the conditions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team The climber was airlifted from Glencoe on Saturday after getting into difficulty A climber…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-502649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115862605171117501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}