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Article: THE WHITE KNIGHTS; EXCLUSIVE Record man James Moncur joins Cairngorm Mountain Rescue team 42 Scots mountain rescue volunteers... all of them heroes at below zero.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2008
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Byline: James Moncur
THE lone mountaineer was experienced, fit and had all the latest coldweather kit - but none of it was going to save him.
He'd been lying at the base of a 200ft cliff for more than three hours with a shattered pelvis and a snapped thigh bone sticking through his waterproof trousers. He'd run out of time.
The wind speed was gusting at over 100mph, the temperature was down to -30C and the driving snow had reduced visibility to a couple of feet.
But with tears freezing on his face as he thought of his wife and two young ...