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Latest Incident

25/09/2024 - Cwm Idwal, Idwal Slabs (Ordinary Route)

A small group were walking around Llyn Idwal when one of the group decided to start climbing up Idwal slabs, concerned, another followed them. Without any climbing equipment the pair became stuck a significant distance up the slabs so called for help. A hasty party was deployed and located the pair while a further team deployed with additional TRR kit and took the descent route to the top of the slabs. A team of 3 experienced climbers nearby were able to access the stuck pair and assisted them to the 'lunchtime ledge' and began to confidence rope them off. The hill team met the group and continued to assist the pair down to the lake and back to the roadside.

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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!