The SARA Rope Rescue Teams were called out on Sunday afternoon (1st October) to find and rescue a walker who had become stuck on very steep wooded ground north of Lancaut.

Team members from Beachley were joined by colleagues from Newport and Tewkesbury. Together they were able to safely escort the well-equipped man across the slippery slope to an area below Cockshoot Quarry, from where he could be raised up the almost vertical rocks using a pulley system.

He was not injured, and subsequently made his own way home, but with two newly qualified casualty carers on scene he was in good hands.