A man has been airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after falling and sliding a total of 250m in the Cairngorms yesterday.
The 25-year-old man fell at 3.30pm over the rim of Coire Sputan Dearg on the plateau below the summit of Ben Macdui, and slid around 250m down the mountainside. He was found following a rescue operation involving Braemar and Aberdeen Mountain rescue teams at 6.30pm and was evacuated by stretcher before being airlifted to hospital. Police Scotland described the evacuation as being carried out in “challenging conditions”.
On the Ben Macdui plateau in winter