An experienced hillwalker spent more than 24 hours stuck on a cliff edge above a Highland loch before being rescued
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The 72-year-old man became stranded and was"unable to go forward or back" in the Kinloch Hourn area at Loch Hourn on Sunday afternoon.Due to the remote location and lack of mobile signal, the pensioner was unable to contact the Coastguard until Monday.Kyle RNLI lifeboat crew set sail at around 1.20pm after the alarm was raised. The rescue operation, involving members of Glenelg Mountain Rescue Team, lasted more than six hours.
At one point the man spotted the rescue team, but they were too far away for him to signal to the crew.The rescuers, who had to head back out of the loch to re-establish communications with the Coastguard, eventually found the man on a small ledge just above the waterline at 7pm. He was reunited with his family in Kyle of Lochalsh around 30 minutes later.
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