Reporting rescue missions involving the Guardia Civil mountain-rescue groups is getting a bit repetitive, however the information is the information.

Two climbers, a person and girl each aged 37, fell while scaling a rock face (Los Raspones de Rioseco – see picture) on the Sierra Nevada on the morning of Wednesday the seventeenth, round 11.00h.

The one that was main reached for a protruding rock as a handhold but it surely got here away in his hand, inflicting him to fall, colliding with the girl beneath him and bringing her down, too. It may need been the girl who was main – the press launch doesn’t make clear which one it was.

Each ended up on the backside, badly injured and unable to proceed, in order that they phoned 112. The decision centre contacted the mountain-rescue service in Granada, who in flip despatched a helicopter as much as the Sierra with a 2-man rescue staff onboard.

In the meantime, again on the backside of the rock face, the 2 climbers awaited the rescue helicopter which managed to find them shortly. The difficulty was that there was nowhere for the chopper to land and even relaxation a runner, safely so the winch was used, first sending down the rescue staff after which winching victims and rescuers again up.

Earlier than they had been harnessed up for ascent, the rescuers checked them over and put a splint on one of many girl’s limbs. As soon as everyone was within the helicopter, it made its method to the PTS basic hospital in Granada the place the medical workers took cost of them.

(Information: Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucia)