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
0
Incidents
0
Exercises
0
Events
0
Whichever way you plan to enjoy the mountains, be #adventuresmart
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 Catch Up:![]()
The first of this year’s May Bank Holiday weekends saw us out on a few callouts:![]()
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The weekend early kick off was on Thursday (30th April), on our way back to base after our evening of training we diverted to Pont ar Daf car park in Bannau Brycheiniog - Brecon Beacons - National Park after being called at 9.50pm to help two walkers who’d become disoriented on the Neuadd Ridge. ![]()
This was one of the days during the week when numerous grass fires were reported across the National Park, and with safety of team members paramount our Incident Controllers made all the relevant dynamic risk assessments before agreeing with team members at the car park it was safe to proceed onto the mountain. ![]()
It’s also important to recognise the ladies who’d called for help had started their walk earlier in the day before the fire reports.![]()
While we were deploying we were aided by an Incident Controller from Brecon Mountain Rescue Team who relayed phone messages between us and the two walkers, thank you Duncan. This assisted us to swiftly locate the ladies at Bwlch Duwynt, they were thankfully uninjured, albeit cold and tired, and we escorted them back to the car park for some hot chocolate from our control vehicle. ![]()
Shortly after midnight we were back at base then on our way home. ![]()
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Friday (1st May) we were called at 3pm by Dyfed-Powys Police to assist two lady walkers at the waterfalls area of BB. The ladies had been given, shall we say questionable, advice from a passer by on how best to see one of the waterfalls on the 4 Falls Trail and found themselves on a very unofficial, narrow footpath which made it difficult for them to go further or retrace their steps, so they did the right thing and called for help. ![]()
Thanks to #PhoneFind and Sarloc Rescue technology, 3 of our first responding members were able to get to the ladies and walked them out of the waterfalls gorge then back to their vehicle.![]()
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Saturday (2nd May) we were requested to assist Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust Paramedics and our First Responder friends at Bike Park Wales with extrication of an injured mountain bike rider with spinal and sternum injuries. With seamless joint working we soon had the gentleman stretchered to the ambulance and on his way to hospital.![]()
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Saturday continued into the evening when we were called at 8.40pm to assist our Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team colleagues with a male walker near Sgwd Gwladus waterfall. He had fallen and sustained a suspected fracture dislocation his shoulder. After assessment by one of our Remote Rescue Medics he was able to be carefully walk to Pontneddfechan village, from where his friend took him to hospital. Just after 10pm we were back at base then on our way home.![]()
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The weekend’s activities had taken us to 63 calls for help so far this year, to which we’ve deployed team members to 54 of them. ![]()
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Alongside and in addition to all the callouts we’ve been called to our various training activities have continued of course, and there’ll be an update on those later this week