A CLIMBER and a walker have been rescued in separate incidents after falls in the Wye Valley.

Emergency services rushed to Symonds Yat East shortly before 6pm on Wednesday, October 2, when a 30-year-old man was reported to have fallen from the rock face.

They helped walk the climber 500m to a road to be checked by paramedics.

Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue said: “We were called to an incident to assist Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service with the rescue of a fallen climber on rocks near Symonds Yat.

“Crews from Whit-church, Ross-on-Wye, and Ledbury supported GFRS crews to walk the 30-year-old man 500m back to the road.”

A restricted access vehicle was used at the scene, which was also attended by Gloucestershire Police and the West Midlands Ambulance Service.

In another incident last Saturday (October 12), rescuers were called out in darkness to help a man who had fallen and injured his leg in steep woodland at Redbrook.

A Severn Area Rescue Association Beachley spokesman said: “Land teams from SARA Bea- chley and Tewkesbury deployed to the village.

“A man had injured his leg whilst walking in steep woods close to Redbrook in the late afternoon, and it took some time for his friends to be able to identify his location to police so that we could attend to him.

“Working with the Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service and NHS paramedics in the dark, we carried him down to the road on one of our Mountain Rescue stretchers, carefully back-roping it down the slope so that it was always secure.

“There he was transferred directly to a waiting ambulance.

“We all wish him a speedy recovery.”