This weekend saw a joint rescue operation to help a climber with a broken ankle following a fall in Point Five gully on Ben Nevis. Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team and a Royal Navy helicopter crew went to the aid of the climber on Saturday afternoon. The man had fallen in a narrow part of the gully and there was not enough space for the helicopter winchman to recover the injured man. It is thought his crampons snagged during the fall causing him to break one ankle and seriously hurt the other
Later in the day members of the Rescue Team were able to pull the climber down and out of the gully. He was then carried off the mountain by stretcher.