Shortly after 2:00 a.m. , the Team was contacted by Dyfed Powys Police with a request to assist in the search for a high risk missing person near Borth.

Concerns had been raised over a 70 year old male who had been acting erratically over the previous few days and was now found to be missing from home.

As Team volunteers were starting to arrive on scene, the man returned home and at 4:30 a.m. the incident was closed.

Shortly after 7:00 p.m., Team call-handlers were made aware of a walker, lost and disoriented in the cloud on Aran Fawddwy. 

With little information on the man’s location, attempts were made to pinpoint his position using phone find technology. The phone signal is at best patchy in that area, and with no response received the Team mobilised to start a search of likely paths. 

As team members made their way to the area, confirmation was received that the man was in his vehicle driving home, and the search was stood-down.

At around 10:15 p.m. the Team was contacted by NWP regarding an informant reporting 2nd-hand information about overdue climbers on Cader Idris.

Being unable to contact anyone directly involved in the incident, Team volunteers made their way to the Minffordd car-park to make further investigations. 

The wife of one of the climbers was present, and reported she had last seen her husband and climbing partner at 3:00 p.m. at Llyn Cau. Their intention was, she said, to climb in the south-west corner of the Llyn in an area identified as being around Pen Coed Pillar. Her husband was described as an experienced climber, while his partner was less so, so she anticipated they would not be on anything too difficult. She reported them as being lightly equipped beyond their climbing kit.

With the possibility of crag-fast and benighted climbers, the assistance of Coastguard helicopter R936 was requested. The aircraft was granted, but was at that time refuelling in Liverpool. In the meantime, the plan was to send small teams to check above and below the area of the climb in order to locate the pair. As Team volunteers assembled, the first party was deployed up the hill, and fortunately encountered the missing climbers mid-way up the Minffordd steps. 

The pair had underestimated or been misled by online resources about the difficulty of climb they were attempting, and it had taken much longer than anticipated. They were not well prepared for dealing with the extended time on the crag, and the situation was compounded by a flat mobile battery.

Everyone was safely off the mountain by 12:19 a.m.

At around 4:00 p.m. the Team was made aware of a 13 year-old girl with an injured ankle on the Craig Cau saddle on Cader idris.

While Team volunteers prepared to approach from the west, Coastguard helicopter R936 dropped a winchman-paramedic to assess the situation. The casualty was down-lifted to the awaiting Team vehicles and collected by her mother shortly afterwards.

Team members were involved in the ongoing search around Llanidloes for a high-risk missing person. The Team was stood down at around 5:00 p.m.

At around 9:30 p.m. the Team received a request to assist our neighbours at Brecon Mountain Rescue Team with the search for a high risk missing woman, again in Llanidloes. The search was stood-down without a find at 3:15 a.m. the following morning. 

Shortly before 6:30 p.m. the Team received a request to assist an injured walker on Cader Idris.

The man, in his 30s and from Devon, injured his ankle in a a slip near the outflow of Llyn Cau. Being unable to walk on the injured limb the man was carried by team-stretcher down the Minffordd path. The man was taken by friends to Ysbwty Gwynedd at Bangor for further assessment and treatment.

At around 10:00 a.m. the Team responded to a request from our southern neighbours in Brecon Mountain Rescue Team to assist in the search for a high risk person missing for 3 days. The Team was able to send water-rescue and bank-search teams to assist in the multi-agency operation based around Llanidloes.

Towards the end of a full day of searching, a Fire and Rescue service team detected the heat-source of a recent camp-fire, and some astute piecing together of information and evidence led the operation-control to conclude that this was associated with the missing man. Search parties, including volunteers from Aberdyfi, were quickly moved into the area, and the man was located alive and physically well shortly afterwards.

Shortly after 3:00 p.m., call-handlers from the Team were made aware of a lone walker with a leg injured whilst walking the Aran Ridge.

The man, in his 50's, slipped near summit of Aran Fawddwy and strained a muscle in his leg. He had subsequently tried to make his own way off the mountain but, being unable to load bear on the leg, he quickly realised that he needed assistance.

​The team was called-out with a plan to drive as high as possible and deploy from the top of the nearby forestry block. A request was also placed for assistance from Coastguard helicopter R936. As the team was assembling at the foot of the mountain, R936 was able to collect the casualty and downloaded him to a nearby landing site to be met by Team personnel. The man was transported to meet his wife who was waiting to drive him onwards for hospital based assessment and treatment.