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Scottish Mountain Rescue consists of 21 volunteer mountain rescue teams, 2 search and rescue dog associations (SARDA) with over 1000 volunteers, plus an additional 3 police teams, 1 RAF team and Scottish Cave Rescue. [2] The Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland (MRCofS) was formed in 1965. [2] It is a registered charity (number SC015257). In ...
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The Mountain Bothies Association (MBA) is a Scottish registered charity. [1] It looks after 104 bothies and two emergency mountain shelters (not to be mistaken for or confused with a mountain hut, as the Fords of Avon and Garbh Choire refuges are little more than a heavily weather protected shed). [2]
In England and Wales this is Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) [6] and in Scotland, Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland, now known as Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR). [7] Prince William is the patron of MREW. Mountain rescue services are also provided by the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service (RAFMRS). [8] [9]
A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers, climbers and hikers. Mountain huts are usually operated by an Alpine Club or some organization dedicated to hiking or mountain recreation.
The Mountain Bothies Association was established in 1965, becoming a Scottish charity in 1975, to take on the basic care and maintenance of some of these shelters, with the cooperation of the owners who sometimes help financially. [5] The first bothy to be restored was Tunskeen. [6]
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The Black Cloud: Scottish Mountain Misadventures 1928-1966. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-948153-20-4. Doylerush, Edward (1994). The Legend of Llandwrog: The Story of an Airfield and the Birth of the RAF Mountain Rescue Service. Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-0-904597-88-2. Earl, David W. (1999). All In a Day's Work: RAF Mountain Rescue in Snowdonia, 1944 ...