Marines save climber found curled up on Ben Nevis in -20C blizzard | News

A group of Marines conducting a training exercise came across a climber curled up in the snow in freezing conditions on Ben Nevis.

The team, consisting of the Royal Scottish Naval Reserves (RMR) and Dutch Korps Mariniers, had summited Britain’s highest mountain, Gale, in Force 8 winds with visibility of one meter on January 24 when they spotted the man.

Footage shared by the Royal Navy shows soldiers carrying the man with “blocks of ice” on his face down the mountain on a makeshift stretcher.

“He definitely would not have survived if we had not seen him,” said Sergeant Onno Lankhaar, the Dutch marines’ section commander.

The climber later recovered enough to walk independently and was delivered to emergency services.