Extreme rescue for underground teenagers in welsh slate mine

This 15 -year -old friends were considered an epic underground adventure for Draigen and Josh, headed by Draigen’s mother Kate.

Family photo presents a picture in a dark environment, wearing a helmet with three persons headlamps and outdoor gears. On the left side of the picture is Drezen, who is 15 years old, wearing a yellow caveing helmet with a light on its front. He has light hair, which is long at the back. He has a dark blue wool jacket, and has blue harness straps on his chest. On her left is Mother Kate, staring at the camera with a wide open mouth and her left hand is raised. He is a white caveing helmet with a large light array on the helmet. She is wearing a bright orange coat and also shows a harness or rucasak straps. On his left side, 15. He is wearing a black coat with his hood, and is a pink caveing helmet on the hood. He waves both hands with a mobile phone in his left hand. The screen of the phone is slightly torn. From the phone taking the picture, light is illuminating the reflective strips on the shoulder of the coat of light. It is black behind them, in which nothing is visible, it shows that they are underground. — This 15 -year -old friends were considered an epic underground adventure for Draigen and Josh, headed by Draigen’s mother Kate.

“This is the most scary thing that has happened to me in my life – sometimes.”

15 -year -old Josh joined friend Drejen and his mother Kate, an experienced climber, cavernum and adventurer, who was for a brilliant journey through an underground slate mine system near the Blainau Ffestinog in Guended.

But things took a twist for a cold after a canoe after a cold, on a cold subtrenian lake, dragen got stuck, cooled and wet, so her mother had to leave both boys to seek help.

Mountain rescue teams are urging people to plan their adventures as they cut themselves for the arrival of visitors during summer school holidays.

BBC Wales TV series SOS: Extreme Rescue Mountain is following the rescue teams compared to the previous year.

But this shows that the danger is not always on the mountains – sometimes they are down.

Kate said to Essex, “I always be interested in the mountains and trying to get a really good experience with my children.”

“Doing something like this is really nutritious and it just makes so many skills.”

For Kate, visiting the cave system reaching 130 meters (425 ft) in places was the perfect adventure for his son and his friend.

He said that he had done carefully research on the route, and all three were well equipped for a journey associated with rope bridges, dropping down the rock faces, using zip lines, and even a boat to cross a cold lake.

Three hours on the route, they approached the lake, one of the largest obstacles of the mine, which is 50 meters (160 ft) and reaches a depth of 60 meters (200 ft) in places.

In the mine lake, the old canoe was considered to be taken one by one above the water.

Family photo a small boat floating on deep water. It is a blue canoe - water is also visible in it. Ropes and chains are visible. The light is slow, which creates a strong contrast between enlightened boat and dark surroundings, causing a moody, atmospheric feeling to the scene — In the mine lake, the old canoe was considered to be taken one by one above the water.

“Just a rope was hanging in water, so I and Josh just started pulling this rope and there was a canoe at the end of this rope,” said Driganen.

“It was just crazy.”

Kate was the first person to go down to the canoe to cross the lake.

“I always like to make sure it is safe.”

Josh chased, but when it was Drejen’s turn – the disaster hit.

“I just stood in the wrong place,” said Drejen.

“It just drowned.”

In the footage occupied by the underground, he tells his mother that he is “really deep” in cold water.

“I was nervous – I was struggling to climb back. All the rock was falling from the wall,” he said.

“I was in water for about a minute. The cold was cold.”

He managed to pull himself on a rock, but he was now stuck, trapped on the other side of the lake, unable to reach the top of it, and was unable to find his mother or friend.

Kate said she was worried that she could face cold effects Hypothermia And managed to get a survival bag to help him.

They were deep underground, and it meant that there was no phone signal to call for help, so he had an option – two boys to leave and go to help themselves.

He said, “This was one of the most difficult decisions made by me, I would say, in my lifetime,” he said.

“I knew how scary it was going to be for him.”

North Wales Cave Rescue Organization members reached the boy’s place at around 21:30 pm

BBC Simru Wales | Darlin image shows two persons wearing helmets and harness inside a dark cave. The man in the foreground is an orange T-shirt and a green harness and is wearing a caveing helmet. In front of him, another man in Red is examining the rope in his hands. A piece of paper or sign is attached to the rock wall on the left side. The walls of the cave are rugged and textured, carved dark rock slate mines. The scene is burnt by the helmet torches worn by two men. — North Wales Cave Rescue Organization members reached the boy’s place at around 21:30 pm

Finally, to increase the alarm, it took him two and a half hours to find its way out of the mine complex.

The rescue operation then came into action, in which the eberglassaline Mountains Rescue Team Ground, and the volunteers of the North Wales Cave Rescue Organization were going to the mine.

Overall, Kate had four hours of going when the rescue team found two teenagers – safe but cool.

“When I heard his voice – I was relieved,” Drigen said, which was brought for security by the cave rescue team.

He was assigned a flask of hot chocolate and some warm clothes before he and Josh were helped to get out of the mine to reconcile with Kate.

Josh said: “I was very relieved – all the stress that was created was just gone.”

The first thing is that the boys asked if Kate was fine.

“I was very proud of them,” he said.

This was the result that the rescue team had expected after initial apprehensions for their safety, and did they leave the place in an attempt to find their way.

“We didn’t know if he was injured,” Dave Evans told the Eberglasseline Mountain Rescue Team.

“We were hoping that they stopped … but they did. He did what he was to do.”

Dave Evans Ebarglaslin was one of the members of the Mountain Rescue Team, who coordinated the logistics towards the mountain, while the cave rescue team went underground

A middle -aged man with a small gray beard is watching in camera. He is mostly bald. He is wearing an outdoor coat, showing the red trim of the coat. Behind him, there is a wall made of gray slate slab out of the focus. — Dave Evans Ebarglaslin was one of the members of the Mountain Rescue Team, who coordinated the logistics towards the mountain, while the cave rescue team went underground

The Mountain Rescue Team Leader stated that it exposed the importance of preparing – and there is a need to plan further for the emergency.

Last year, seven North Wales rescue teams signed a deal with over 750 calls, with the highest peak YR Wyddfa in more than 320 fields, also known as Snowden, the most callout for any team in Wales and England.

“When you come to Wales, for Erie [also known as Snowdonia]You are planning your route – you have planned your vehicle, how much petrol you have found in your vehicle to go to North Wales, “he said.

“It’s not separate when you come and set the feet on the mountains of North Wales.

“Things can be wrong, hopefully it’s not. But if you have planned – then half the battle wins.”