Shortly after midnight, the Team received a request to support our neighbouring team, South Snowdonia Search & Rescue Team, with an ongoing missing-person search on Rhinog Fawr. The missing walker, in his 50’s and from the Stockport area, had sent a photo from the summit of Rhinog Fawr mid-afternoon, after which there had been no further contact. The man was some 6 hours overdue when the alarm was raised, at which time thunder and hale storms were sweeping the hills. At first light, a search party from the Team joined other resources from SSSRT and Aberglaslyn MRT, along with SARDA Wales search dogs and the Coastguard helicopter Rescue936. Despite a day of intensive activity searching the difficult ground, the man was not located. As twilight approached, and search parties started to return to base, the man was encountered on a nearby tarmac road, a little battered around the edges by his ordeal, but largely uninjured.
