A walker with a therapy dog used to aid victims of the Manchester terror attack was rescued off Britain’s highest mountain.
The exhausted hill walker required assistance by Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team to get off 4411-feet high Ben Nevis.
In the party was a therapy pug called Alfie, who works at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital helping sick kids in their recovery and has even helped children who were caught up in the Manchester Arena bombing.
A spokesman for Lochaber Mountain Rescue said: “As we owed it to the sick children in Manchester - we sent our own super hero - Terry Cornfield MBE hero of around 2000 rescues in his short mountain rescue career.
“We are glad to say that the casualty and Alfie are safely off the hill now with Terry’s help. Alfie and Terry obviously immediately struck up and great friendship.”
Alfie was rescued during the first part of his bid to complete the National Three Peaks Challenge over three days to raise funds for Beat and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
The challenge involves tackling the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales.
Despite his ordeal on Ben Nevis the intrepid dog was back attempting to scale Scafell Pike in the Lake District before moving on to Snowdon.
The rescue team was were also called out at just after midnight to help locate a lost walker in a forest at Tulloch.
The Inverness-based Coastguard search and rescue team used its thermal imaging camera to locate the man at 2.40am.
Because of the dense woodland, the rescue team were dropped about 400 yards from the man and took him to the aircraft. He was unharmed.
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