The team successfully completed the training, which took place in the Cairngorms, and enhanced their skills for safe movement during coordinated search and rescue operations in mountainous environments.

However, during the week-long training period, the team were also called out twice and were tasked with putting some of their newly acquired skills into action.

On February 18 they were called out to assist the Skye Mountain Rescue Team with a search and rescue operation for a missing person.

The person was found , having survived the cold and rough weather for 48 hours, with a broken leg but was airlifted to hospital thanks to the work of both teams.

The following day, five members of the team were called out again while conducting training in Coire an t-Sneachda, Cairngorms.