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| Two missing ice climbers found | Two missing ice climbers found |
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| Two climbers who went missing in "dreadful conditions" in the Cairngorms have been found. | Two climbers who went missing in "dreadful conditions" in the Cairngorms have been found. |
| The pair, aged 18 and 23, were caught in an avalanche in Coire an t-Sneachda in the Northern Corries. Their conditions are not known. | |
| One climber has been taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. | One climber has been taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. |
| A Royal Air Force helicopter, two mountain rescue teams and search dogs were involved in the search after the pair were reported missing on Sunday. | |
| According to search and rescue teams the other man is still in the corrie. | According to search and rescue teams the other man is still in the corrie. |
| We have managed to recover one man and get him to hospital RAF spokesman Michael Mulford | |
| The first climber to be found was spotted by an RAF helicopter which called for an ambulance and picked him up. | |
| RAF spokesman Michael Mulford said: "We have managed to recover one man and get him to hospital." | |
| A search was launched overnight with a helicopter from Lossiemouth using an infra-red camera and four mountain rescue team members on the ground. | |
| The operation resumed on Monday morning and involved 30 members of Cairngorm and RAF Kinloss mountain rescue teams and a search dog team. | |
| Before the men were found, rescue services spoke of the difficult conditions in the area. | |
| Winds in the area gusted at up to 70 mph, lowering the temperature to -20C, and there was deep snow. | |
| 'Avalanche danger' | |
| Earlier, Mr Mulford described what the searchers were faced with. | |
| He said: "It is a relatively small area but conditions are really awful. | |
| "You have got a lot of snow up there, you have got an avalanche danger. This is the difficulty with that whole area of Coire an t-Sneachda." | |
| One veteran mountaineer told BBC Scotland that Coire an t-Sneachda is a honey pot for climbers because it is easy to get to and offers grade one to nine climbs for beginners to the highly experienced. | |
| In March, an RAF Sea King had to make an emergency landing in the corries after its rotors iced up. | |
| The crew had to abandon the helicopter, which was eventually flown back out after heating experts de-iced it. | |
| The helicopter got into difficulty in a blizzard during a call-out to rescue a man injured while climbing in Coire an t-Sneachda, Gaelic for corrie of the snow. |