Search and Rescue team rescue two trapped sheep from Llangollen cliff

The North East Wales Search and Rescue have helped a farmer retrieve two stuck sheep on a cliff above Llangollen.

NEWSAR explained, “Usually ‘stuck’ sheep become magically ‘unstuck’ after a few days when they have eaten all the grass on their little ledge! In this case they didn’t appear keen to move after a while.”

“So we used a well rehearsed system, two team members abseiling in to each side of the ledge, which is followed by some fairly ‘energetic’ stuffing them into a builders bag. It’s not pretty, but they are not hurt in the process.”

“Then everyone gets lowered to the ground, sheep run off… not a wave of thanks… tsk!🙂”

They added that the farmer was very grateful though and the exercise was also a good bit of rope work practice for them too.

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