Climber Incident - Sunday

Prior to the search deployment yesterday evening the IRT was called to a climber who had fallen on a climb at ‘Cattle Troughs’ approximately 1 mile west of Anvil Point Lighthouse. It was reported that he had broken a leg in a fall from 5m.

His climbing group made him safe while another climbing group ran to Anvil Point lighthouse in an attempt to call the emergency services. Finding the rescue phone out of order they then ran a further mile to the Durlston Country Park to raise the alarm.

At 17:42 CROs Craker and Kitching were paged and deployed to the Lighthouse, They ran the mile of the cliff path arriving 18:01 to find Rescue Helicopter 106 on scene with the winchman attending to the casualty. After a brief interlude the casualty was lifted and taken by helicopter to hospital.







With the sun setting at 18:32 this gave a short 9 minute window for the two climbing groups to recover themselves and their kit from the cliff face and return up the slopes to the safety of the coastal path. All people accounted for, all kit recovered as night closed in.

The two separate climbing groups are to be commended for their efforts; and we wish the chap a speedy recovery.

# Just as the Coastguard Team were about to leave the car park they were flagged down by Dorset Police to discuss an elderly person who had just gone missing.