 The two injured teenagers were treated for leg and spinal injuries |
Two injured 19-year-old walkers have been rescued by helicopter from Snowdon after falling down a slippery slope in bad weather on Wednesday. They were airlifted to hospital in Gwynedd with back and leg injuries but released later.
Rescuers on foot also helped another with a suspected broken ankle and a teenager suffering a panic attack.
They were members of a 23-strong sixth form college group from Southampton who fell near Crib Goch, 2,000ft (610m) up.
One of the teenagers airlifted had fallen 15ft (4.6m), and the other about 50ft (15.25m).
Winch man Sgt Ed Griffiths from RAF Valley on Anglesey was lowered from a Sea King helicopter to the teenagers, who had fallen on a scree slope, before being joined by three members of RAF Valley mountain rescue team.
They were taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, while rescuers on foot helped the others down.
Members of Llanberis mountain rescue team also climbed to the scene to help in an operation which lasted for almost six hours.
The rescue had been hampered by low clouds, but a gap in the clouds allowed the helicopter to winch the two injured men aboard.
A rescuer said: "Conditions were awful. It was pouring with rain and there was very low cloud which made it tricky for the helicopter."
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