【Orbea】林道故事：最後一次“飛行”

Torredon is one of the finest places in Scotland All the northwest is But Torredon is special because I've got so many great memories of the hills Being able to see the sea and the locks And the light up here is just wonderful There's so much space So those who just go in the hills or they go cycling Just go off the track and the space is just wow And you see these myriad of locks about It's just wonderful I think people come to Torredon Because it's got such a reputation Built on various things Like there's so many attractions But just the remoteness of it all And from different places you can see the islands Like Skye and Rum on a good day Even Harris if you get it right It's just a wonderful place And it's still not heavily populated There is space for everybody here In large scale production In the many factories of the Avro Group In the factories of other British aircraft manufacturers At home and overseas Many thousands of men and women toil night and day To produce the gigantic warplanes for Bomber Command Lancaster flew from Kinloss It was there and it was doing a training flight with crew And it went missing And in these days there was no mobile phones Even 51 and very few telephones up here And the area they were looking was miles All the way out to the islands and everywhere And somebody in the village said they'd heard a crash Or seen a bright light in the sky at night Now you remember this is March 1951 And that's how they kind of tied it down to an area But in 1951 these mountains were very in They still are very inescapable But they're very remote then So the team had to come and look And this was not for three days They couldn't even start the search Because they didn't know where it was Nowadays aircraft carry beacons and bits and pieces And it's a lot easier and technology has improved But this was an incredible incident at the time I mean they located wreckage that first day But I mean March it's still So there was a hugely long day in full winter conditions Now I'm a climber, I've climbed up there It's taken me three hours to walk in from the normal way in So it must have taken them at least five or six hours And they'd be breaking snow the whole way in I mean the photos show you how deep the snow was And then they found wreckage at the bottom Two things, they didn't have any The kit was very poor, it was ex-World War II There was no mountaineering kit as we know it They were all National Service people Everybody in these days did National Service And they were very lucky they had three or four mountaineers And you know when you look at the kit they've got I mean it was like what they used in the Arctic Thin jackets and layers and layers of army uniforms There would be no radios as such They had radios but they didn't work very well They couldn't handle the rain They couldn't handle the wet, the cold and everything else So one can only imagine And not only that, it's a horrific scene And I know this was only a few years after the war But a lot of these were young kids in that team So coming across these casualties There was quite a few casualties Everybody was killed at various times Having to pick them up And aircraft crashes had been to loads And not nice things Cape Wrath 六十公里北 那是最後一次 任何人都會聽到 Eight men aboard the 120 squadron RAF Avro Lancaster TX-264 What happened on that fateful night in 1951 And what followed Would change the face of mountain rescue In the UK forever Air Force after the incident Because there was a lot of bad press about it But they did have an inquiry And then they decided The training wasn't good enough So every year we will run a winter course In Scotland for two weeks We'll get all the RAF teams up And we'll train them We used to cramp on ice axes And looking after themselves And they started developing the equipment And there was a guy called Johnny Lees Took over at Valley And he became a guide One of the first guides in Britain And he changed the system And how it all worked And they wrote the first kind of handbook Of mountain rescue Which the swimming teams had at the time So it changed everything It became far more professional I don't think what Yeah, oh God There's a big avalanche And it's front page news in every paper Then they phone you up And say, right, give us the And I says, yeah, but These things happen We're doing everything we can But, you know, what else can we do And they don't understand the stats And I did the statistics for ten years So I know exactly What's going on in the accident rate And most people are very, very safe And I says, is it not better I hate to say this Somebody getting, you know How do you compare with all the drunks That are fighting in London Or Glasgow or wherever Getting drunk Pouring drugs into the system From some mountaineer or cyclist Getting carried off with Lincoln Hill I know where I'd rather be You know And there's no answer to that This incident Put the RAF's mountain rescue training And equipment into short focus The handbook that came out of this tragedy Is currently in its seventh edition And is still used as a benchmark today The RAF Mountain Rescue Service Would be born from this And the modern volunteer-led teams Would follow this pattern As the swinging sixties Saw more people Venturing to the mountains