At around 5:30 p.m. call-handlers from the Team were made aware of two hill-walkers overdue and lost on Cader Idris.
The couple, a male and female both in their 20s, were visiting the area from South Wales for the weekend. They had set out to climb the mountain after lunchtime but were poorly equipped for the task, with inadequate clothing and footwear, no map and no torch. Having reached the summit and begun their descent, the walkers took a wrong turn in the mist and found themselves lost as darkness fell. By the time they had called for help one mobile phone was already flat and the other battery was at 4% power.
A call-handler was able to make telephone contact with the walkers, and with the last of their phone battery they were able to activate the "PhoneFind" protocol already sent to them, and which informed the team of their exact location. Having established their position, and with further contact unlikely before the phone expired, the pair were asked to remain at that point on the hill.
Team volunteers made their way up the mountain, but on reaching the location found no sign of the missing walkers. Eventually a response to the rescuer's shouts was heard, and searching through the mist and darkness the pair were eventually found around 700m from their "known" location, having descended into steep and difficult ground.
Cold, but otherwise unhurt, the pair were provided with some suitable clothing and escorted down off the mountain. Everyone was safely down at the carpark by 9:45 p.m.
The couple, a male and female both in their 20s, were visiting the area from South Wales for the weekend. They had set out to climb the mountain after lunchtime but were poorly equipped for the task, with inadequate clothing and footwear, no map and no torch. Having reached the summit and begun their descent, the walkers took a wrong turn in the mist and found themselves lost as darkness fell. By the time they had called for help one mobile phone was already flat and the other battery was at 4% power.
A call-handler was able to make telephone contact with the walkers, and with the last of their phone battery they were able to activate the "PhoneFind" protocol already sent to them, and which informed the team of their exact location. Having established their position, and with further contact unlikely before the phone expired, the pair were asked to remain at that point on the hill.
Team volunteers made their way up the mountain, but on reaching the location found no sign of the missing walkers. Eventually a response to the rescuer's shouts was heard, and searching through the mist and darkness the pair were eventually found around 700m from their "known" location, having descended into steep and difficult ground.
Cold, but otherwise unhurt, the pair were provided with some suitable clothing and escorted down off the mountain. Everyone was safely down at the carpark by 9:45 p.m.