Injured German teenager rescued after falling from rocks near Achmelvich beach
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An injured 18-year-old German tourist was rescued from rocks in Sutherland.
The teen suffered a leg injury in the fall just north of Achmelvich beach on Saturday evening.
Coastguards from Achiltibuie, Ullapool and Kinlochbervie were sent as well as the Lochinver lifeboat.
The alarm was raised at 9.43pm and the lifeboat took him to Lochinver and into the care of the Scottish ambulance service around two hours later.
His condition is unknown.
"A group of school friends from Germany were on a cycling and camping holiday in the Highlands when one of the young men slipped on the rocks above the beach and injured his ankle," said a spokesperson for Lochinver Lifeboat.
"Unable to walk, his friends managed to help him back to their campsite and called an ambulance. The ambulance paramedic attending decided it would be easier to carry the casualty down to the beach rather than over land up to the road and assistance from the lifeboat was then requested.
"On arrival off the beach, the volunteer crew members were all ferried to the beach on the lifeboat’s daughter craft, the Y boat, and made their way up the hill with a stretcher.
"The ambulance paramedic was joined by three more of her colleagues and together they prepared the casualty and helped him in to the stretcher, ready to be moved.
"The lifeboat’s volunteer crew then carried the casualty down the hill to the beach and out to the waiting lifeboat, which quickly returned to Lochinver. Whilst the RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea, as we did tonight, occasionally we are required to venture on land as well."
