Horserider taken to Raigmore Hospital after being rescued in the Cairngorms
A horse and its rider were rescued in the Cairngorms after she sustained a leg injury yesterday.
Five members of Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team were called out at 6.30pm on Saturday and assisted by estate workers reached the woman about two hours later.
The woman rider, in her 50s, had sustained a leg injury while crossing a stream in Glen Banchor near Newtonmore.
"Her partner had gone out to meet her and he raised the alarm through emergency communications linked to his mobile phone – otherwise, he was two or three miles from a mobile phone signal. Getting a call out through the system was a first for us," said team leader Iain Cornfoot.
"She was walking the horse across a river and twisted her knee in the process. We administered first aid and stretchered her to the estate all-terrain vehicle and then to one of our own vehicles to get her to an ambulance.
"One of our team members who was experienced with horses walked her horse two miles to their horse box. The animal was fine. It makes rescues more complex when it involves an animal, but it all worked out ok."
She was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
