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Dave Wainwright, 100th Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation director, and Defence Fire Service firefighters Chris Gould, Jerry Myles and Alan Coldwell, all 100th Civil Engineer Squadron, look on with members of the Snowdon Mountain Railway to ensure the casualty they rescued from the top of Mount Snowdon is safely prepared by the winchman to be taken up into the rescue helicopter from 22 Squadron, RAF Valley, Wales.(Courtesy photo from Snowdon Mountain Railway)

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(From left to right) Defence Fire Service Firefighter Alan Coldwell, 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department, Dave Wainwright, 100th Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation, and Defence Fire Service Firefighter Chris Gould, also 100th CES Fire Department, pose for a photo half-way up Ben Nevis, Scotland. Ben Nevis was the first of three mountains they climbed Oct. 2 and 3 for the Three Peaks Challenge, to raise money for charity. The men also climbed Scaffel Pike, England, and Mount Snowdon, Wales. At the top of Mount Snowdon, where they finished their original challenge, they found a new challenge when they came across a man who was unconscious and suffering from hypothermia and frostbite. They called emergency services and played a big part in getting him rescued from the mountain and taken to the hospital. ((Photo by Firefighter Jerry Myles)

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A rescue helicopter from 22 Squadron, RAF Valley, Wales, winches up the casualty from halfway down Mount Snowdon, ready to take him to the hospital. Three Defence Fire Service firefighters, Alan Coldwell, Chris Gould, and Jerry Miles, all 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department, and their mountain guide, Dave Wainwright, 100th Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation, rescued the man they found alone and suffering from hypothermia and frostbite at the peak of Mount Snowdon Oct. 3. After calling emergency services, the four helped bring him halfway down the mountain, with the help of passengers on a train from Snowdon Mountain Railway. The train never usually runs at this time of the year as the weather is too bad, but by coincidence, it was taking passengers to the top of Mount Snowdon at the same time the firefighters found the man. (Courtesy photo by Doug Blair, Snowdon Mountain Railway)