What sort of person is on the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team?
Mountain guides and instructors, teachers, plumbers, doctors, park wardens, builders, nuclear engineers and business consultants – all and more can be found in the team. All are skilled and experienced mountaineers. Turning out in all weathers, day or night, 365 days a year, they share a common purpose – to help anyone who is in trouble on the hills. Where is the team based? We use a small National Park building in the village of Nant Peris as our base. Our team Landrovers are parked in the Vaynol pub car park. The Vaynol are very supportive, often sending round urns of tea and providing food on late night call outs. What is a typical reason for a call out? The call outs that we attend are extremely varied. We get called out to help walkers who have become lost on the mountain, people who have made the error of heading out without a torch and then found themselves on the mountain in the dark, people that have injured themselves and unfortunately to several fatalaties each year. A large
