20th June 2013
To look down
on the wings of an aircraft streaking between the summits often in near
silence, is a hill man's unforgettable experience. When that aircraft is a Sea King SAR helicopter everything is in slow motion
and much, much louder. Daily and even
three times daily in the winter months here at the hostel we had rescue
helipcopters and crews flying directly over us to the hill. It was a heavy toll winter in the Cairngorms
and on 8th December the summit wind speed on Cairngorm itself reached 165mph.
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| Sea King Helicopter Cairngorms |
