Reay Forest Estate workers aid Assynt Mountain Rescue Team in rescue of injured woman from waterfall site
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A walker who was found by Britain's highest waterfall in Assynt was airlifted to hospital after suffering a leg injury - in a dramatic rescue aided by workers from an estate owned by one of the country's richest men.
The woman hiker, who was on her own walking the 249-mile long distance Cape Wrath Trail, called for help through a satellite linked personal locator beacon.
Ten members of Assynt Mountain Rescue Team were sent around 5pm yesterday to Eas a' Chual Aluinn, which at 638 feet is the highest falls in the UK.
Six were given a lift in a speedboat down Loch Glen Coul by worker from the Duke of Westminster's Reay Forest Estate.
They reached the hiker at 8pm, just after a paramedic winchman from the Inverness-based coastguard search and rescue helicopter arrived.
The woman was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. Her condition is unknown.
"Four of our team members were also airlifted back to the waiting speedboat - so it was quite an extra exciting call out for them, a speedboat and a helicopter," said Assynt MRT leader Tim Hamlet.
"We would like to thank the estate for all their help too. It saved a lot of leg walk - it would have been a pretty atrocious walk. The woman who was injured was well equipped."
Meanwhile an injured walker on Ben Nevis was airlifted by the rescue helicopter from Inverness yesterday (Tuesday). The alarm was raised at about 5.15pm. The person was passed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service. Their condition is unknown.
