Runner left with multiple injuries after falling 'significant distance' on Scots ridge
A runner who sustained multiple injuries in a serious fall on a ridge hundreds of metres high has been airlifted to hospital.
Members of the Arran Mountain Rescue Team were transported up the ridge to attend to the casualty and prepare him for transport to hospital. The UK Coastguard's Rescue 199 helicopter then winched up the injured man before taking him to hospital. In a statement, Arran Mountain Rescue Team said: "The team were called out at approximately 1500hrs today to assist a hill runner who had fallen a significant distance from the North buttress of Stacach ridge, North of Goatfell, sustaining multiple injuries.
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