Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team
More than just mountains
IN AN EMERGENCY…
- Dial 999 or 112
- Ask for POLICE
- State you need MOUNTAIN RESCUE
2025 Team Statistics so far…
Rescue Hours
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Incidents
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Exercises
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Events
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Ask yourself these three questions first…
- Do I have the right gear?
- Do I know what the weather will be like?
- Am I confident that I have the knowledge and skills for the day?
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Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team…
is a voluntary organisation responsible for covering the Central section of the Brecon Beacons including South Wales’ highest mountain, Pen y Fan at 886m, Cribyn and Corn Du as well as the Ystradfellte waterfalls, Newport, Cardiff and the valleys.
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Callouts Update: ![]()
Alongside our regular training and the monumental litter picking weekend you may have seen or read about, the calls for our help have also flowed through the tail end of May. There’s a lot to fit in so a summary is here to save scrolling through a very long post. This is Part 1 of 2, with Part 2 to follow: ![]()
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The evening of Thursday 21 May through to Monday 25 May, we were called to the Neuadd Valley area twice (21st & 25th), both times working jointly with our colleagues at Brecon Mountain Rescue Team. On 21st, for a walker reporting an asthma attack near Pen Y Fan and on 25th, a walker suffering heatstroke during the heatwave period on the mountain above Neuadd Vally and Torpantau. Both occasions, the casualties were treated for their conditions by team Doctors, Paramedics and Remote Rescue Medics before being carefully transported off each of the mountains.![]()
Also over the Bank Holiday weekend period we were called twice to the waterfalls area of Bannau Brycheiniog - Brecon Beacons - National Park, 23rd & 25th, both for suspected fractures of lower legs/ankles. Both were treated with pain relief and splintage before being carried to their onward journeys to hospital. ![]()
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Thursday 28 May was a “5 incidents in 1 day” occasion. ![]()
Started with another visit to the Neuadd Valley and another piece of joint working with our Brecon MRT colleagues, to assist a walker with an ankle injury below the summit of Cribyn mountain. Treatment by Paramedic and Remote Rescue Medics for a suspected broken ankle, it was then a stretcher carry off the mountain for onward transport to hospital.![]()
Number 2 of the day was a request to assist our First Responder friends and Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust Paramedics at Bike Park Wales with a stretcher carry to the ambulance of a bike rider with spinal and pelvic injury. ![]()
While finishing number 2, number’s 3 and 4 arrived simultaneously. A request from South Wales Police to assist with an extraction from a ravine of a person found deceased at Clydach Vale, Rhondda and at the same time a request from Dyfed-Powys Police for a walker with a seriously large wound to their knee and unable to walk at the waterfalls area. ![]()
Soon after our one 4x4s arrived at Clydach Vale it was agreed that Police Officers were able to deal with and we stood down. We extend our condolences to the person’s family and friends. ![]()
From our other 4x4 at the waterfalls, one of our team’s Doctors and Remote Rescue Medic dressed the wound and very carefully the casualty was able to slowly walk with support. ![]()
While we helping the casualty into their car in Cwm Porth car park, we were approached by a walker emerging from the trail with a hand injury after falling during their walk. Our team Doctor was soon on it and after giving a full assessment with pain relief, the walker was advised to hospital for a x-ray. ![]()
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Part 2 covering the weekend of 30th May will follow soon.