The Roaches
- Call out for year: 032
- Date: 24/04/22
- Time: 9:43 am
- Grid ref: SK 00570 62350
- Type of incident: Climber Injured(1)
- Team members involved: 20
- Time taken: 2 Hours 30 Mins
- Total man hours: 48 Hours
Incident report
The team was called to a climber that had fallen from the route, Saul’s Crack on the Upper Tier of the Roaches.
Mobile 1, the team’s Hilux was driven up the track from Roaches Gate to just below Rockhall Cottage, where team equipment was deployed from the vehicle and carried to the crag.
The West Midlands Ambulance Service and the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity were already on scene when the team arrived and were providing medical treatment to the casualty below the crag.
The casualty was placed onto the ambulance’s scoop stretcher then carefully loaded onto the mountain rescue stretcher for a tricky, rocky evacuation down to the land ambulance at the roadside.
We’d like to thank local climbers for helping the team carry kit to the crag and we wish the casualty a speedy recovery.
