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14/10/2024 - Carnedd Dafydd, Crib Lem Spur

A solo scrambler called to request assistance when they became lost on the Crib Lem spur and felt they could not continue up or down. The team were readied for deployment and began to gather at base but the walker called back shortly after to say the cloud had lifted and they were now able to continue up the visible path. A short while later they called again to report that they were on the summit of Carnedd Dafydd and required no further help.

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Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation

We rescue day & night, throughout the year

Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation (OVMRO), or Sefydliad Achub Mynydd Dyffryn Ogwen as we are known in the native Welsh language, is a voluntary mountain rescue team responding to incidents in the mountains and valleys surrounding the Ogwen Valley, Glyderau, and Carneddau mountain ranges and surrounding area in northern Eryri (Snowdonia). We are on-call 24 hours a day, throughout the year.

Our team is made up entirely of volunteers who have a wide variety of day jobs. Team members are all mountaineers with vast local knowledge and first aid training. Many have expertise in casualty care, advanced first aid, emergency driving, and swift water rescue.

Fundraising events in the local community

We are all proud of the voluntary tradition of the mountain search and rescue service. We are a registered charity and rely on donations to run our life-saving public service. There is much work to be done in raising funds to support the work we do. Annual running costs are in the region of £115,000.

We also get called out to assist a variety of animal incidents. These range from assisting local farmers with sheep stuck on a mountain ledge, to pets unable to find their way to safety but also to the more obscure and unusual parrots and horses stuck in ditches!