A woman was rescued overnight on Wednesday from the eastern slope of Mount Brandon, where she had been walking alone, and is now recovering in the hospital.
The West Kerry call out was the second call out of the day for the Kerry Mountain Rescue Team. Earlier on Wednesday night, at around 8.30 pm, the team went to the assistance of an English lady who suffered a leg injury in a remote area between the Black and Bríde valleys in the Macgillycuddy’s Reeks near Killarney.
Then, at around 10 p.m., the Garda called in the emergency rescue services to help a woman on Mount Brandon.
The 40-year-old woman got lost while descending the mountain and ended up on a ledge.
Dingle Coast Guard went to the scene and brought her from what one of the Kerry Mountain Rescue Team described as “a very precipitous area”.
Gardaí as well as the Shannon Rescue helicopter, and the two rescue teams succeed in bringing the woman down the mountain at around 6 am this morning.
She is now in UHK recovering from her ordeal.
Her sister took to Twitter to praise the rescue efforts of all those involved especially Kerry Mountain Rescue who said she were “selfless incredible people”.