Brecon Mountain Rescue team was called to evacuate a woman who had fallen on her descent from Pen Y Fan Tuesday lunchtime, working with colleagues from Central Beacons and Longtown Mountain Rescue teams.

The woman had fallen in snowy, icy conditions and sustained a lower leg injury. Rescuers administered first aid then stretchered her off from just below Bwlch Duwynt down to Pont Ar Daf and a waiting county ambulance.

While attending to the injured woman another casualty presented himself to rescuers with a suspected broken arm, also sustained from a fall. The man’s arm was splinted then he was walked of the hill by a mountain rescuer.

As team members were assisting the first casualty on to the stretcher another call was passed to them from Gwent Police. A woman descending from Pen Y Fan was reported to be unwell and in need of assistance. A party was dispatched and the woman, suffering from hypothermia, quickly located. She was assessed by rescuers, with the help of a passing doctor from Bristol’s Southmead Hospital, and was then helped off the hill.

As it is half term the paths up to the twin summits of Pen Y Fan and Corn Ddu are very busy and the number of people compacting the remaining snow on the paths has caused them to become treacherously icy and dangerous.

The temperature on the hill is frequently falling into minus figures and falling further when wind chill is taken into account. Mountain rescue personnel where able to confidently cross the treacherous paths wearing crampons. If you do venture out on the hill please stay safe by ensuring you have appropriate footwear, equipment for the conditions and plenty of warm clothing.