Sierra Nevada Climber Rescue

Reporting rescue missions involving the Guardia Civil mountain-rescue teams is getting a bit repetitive, but the news is the news.

GRA Sierra Nevada Los Raspones de RiosecoTwo climbers, a man and woman both aged 37, fell whilst scaling a rock face (Los Raspones de Rioseco – see photo) on the Sierra Nevada on the morning of Wednesday the 17th, around 11.00h.

The person who was leading reached for a protruding rock as a handhold but it came away in his hand, causing him to fall, colliding with the woman below him and bringing her down, too. It might have been the woman who was leading – the press release does not clarify which one it was.

Both ended up at the bottom, badly injured and unable to continue, so they phoned 112. The call centre contacted the mountain-rescue service in Granada, who in turn sent a helicopter up to the Sierra with a 2-man rescue team onboard.

Meanwhile, back at the bottom of the rock face, the two climbers awaited the rescue helicopter which managed to locate them quickly. The trouble was that there was nowhere for the chopper to land or even rest a runner, safely so the winch was used, first sending down the rescue team and then winching victims and rescuers back up.

Before they were harnessed up for ascent, the rescuers checked them over and put a splint on one of the woman’s limbs. Once everybody was in the helicopter, it made its way to the PTS general hospital in Granada where the medical staff took charge of them.

(News: Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucia)

  1 comment for “Sierra Nevada Climber Rescue

  1. Patrick Barry Storey
    August 20, 2022 at 5:12 pm

    Sadly most sport pastimes have a small % downside. I lost my front teeth. Even with a gumshield , fractured nose a few times. A left knee dislocation and tear, a neck injury. All for twenty years of enjoyment .
    But horse riding. Parachuting. Parascending too have issues. Sometimes it’s luck of the draw. Or live life in cotten wool. !??

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