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A man has died after falling on a mountain in Glencoe. The 40-year-old was climbing Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mòr, with a companion. Police Scotland said officers were called to the scene at about ...

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Brian Bathurst is a builder by trade but when we meet he is strapped in the back of a coastguard helicopter as it clatters through the dramatic peaks of Glen Coe. Along with five other mountain rescue ...

A hill walker was stranded on a Glencoe mountain for 17 hours during an avalanche warning after mountain rescue were forced to abandon efforts to save him. Volunteers from the Glencoe Mountain Rescue ...

Sky News was recently given special access to the work of one of Scotland's busiest mountain rescue teams. With a Sky News camera, the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team filmed emergency call-outs to rescue ...

"Where do you think we go now?" I shout into the thin, icy air behind me. The question was directed at my husband, Hugh, a few metres below me on the ski slope (though I'm not sure he heard it). I've ...