Shortly before 10:00 a.m. Team call-handlers were informed of a fragmented message received by the Welsh Ambulance Service from a walker with a leg injury on Gau Craig, a spur of Cader Idris.
The call had been cut-off without the callers number being captured, but a brief description and a What3words location had been given. The description just about fitted the w3w location, but local knowledge raised a question about the likelihood of that being correct.
Team volunteers deployed to the meeting point at the top of Tal y Llyn pass, and while waiting for others to arrive the first person there was tasked to chat to plane-spotters coming down off the hill to see if they had seen anything. It had seemed more likely that the given description fitted the spotter's path much better than the w3w location did, and indeed the casualty was quickly located a short distance up that route, and more than a kilometre away from the w3w location.
The 59 year-old woman has sustained a lower leg injury in a simple slip. She was carried by stretcher down off the hill and transported by a friend to Bronglais hospital for further assessment and treatment
The call had been cut-off without the callers number being captured, but a brief description and a What3words location had been given. The description just about fitted the w3w location, but local knowledge raised a question about the likelihood of that being correct.
Team volunteers deployed to the meeting point at the top of Tal y Llyn pass, and while waiting for others to arrive the first person there was tasked to chat to plane-spotters coming down off the hill to see if they had seen anything. It had seemed more likely that the given description fitted the spotter's path much better than the w3w location did, and indeed the casualty was quickly located a short distance up that route, and more than a kilometre away from the w3w location.
The 59 year-old woman has sustained a lower leg injury in a simple slip. She was carried by stretcher down off the hill and transported by a friend to Bronglais hospital for further assessment and treatment
