You would think that having to be rescued up in the mountains would make you more cautious, but not so, it seems, for one person.

Not only was the same person rescued on two separate occasions but, amazingly from the very same spot!

On the 16th of this month around 13.45h the Guardia Civil received a call out for their mountain-rescue team (GREIM) to carry out a rescue mission on the Sierra Nevada in the area known as the Corral del Veleta.

The team set out in their Guardia-Civil helicopter and soon located the stranded climber. He didn’t appear to have any serious injuries although he said that he was hurt and had to be helped to the helicopter.

They then flew him to the skiing village, Pradollano where an air ambulance was waiting to take him to a hospital in the city of Granada.

Whilst still in the Guardia Civil helicopter, one of the team recognised the man to have been one of the two people rescued on the Corral del Veleta back in April. He told them that he had gone up there this time to inspect the state of the snow and ice, because he, and his previously rescued companion had decided to go up there the next day.

However, whilst looking around up there, he had slipped and fortunately had survived a short fall down a frozen slope.

Editorial comment: the Guardia Civil must have resisted the temptation to throw him out of the helicopter from a satisfying height because he was duly handed over to the air-ambulance helicopter at the ski village… without further injuries.

(News/Noticias: Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucia)