Walker 'wrangled' off Tryfan as description leaves people amused
The latest rescue from an extremely busy North Wales mountain rescue team caught the eye of followers this week. Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team have had a blitz of callouts in 2025 as Eryri National Park has been packed full of walkers and climbers.
This has sadly included responding to some tragedies with two lives lost in just the last couple of weeks. Thankfully the last rescue they reported ended well for all involved.
But the description over how they got the latest stuck walker to safety left their fans amused. The drama happened on Thursday on the infamous Tryfan, a scramblers paradise that catches so many out.
A man attempted to come down Y Gully. This is a tricky section to go up and coming down this route is not recommended.
The highly experienced 'Bald Scrambler' said this was "far too steep and would require rope, in my opinion". The point was proven when this particular walker got stuck as he tried the descent.
Ogwen Valley MRT were called and a team dispatched. Three members climbed up to the stricken scrambler.
He was then "wrangled" back to safe ground according to Ogwen MRT on Facebook. The term sparked some interest and potentially a few Google searches.
They would of discovered people can "wrangle", (or herd) cows or other livestock - basically moving or bringing them under control, perhaps by rope in the traditional cowboy way.
Indeed in this case the walker was roped off the cliff and walked off the mountain.
In response to their Facebook post, one walker said: "The threat of being wrangled would ensure that I behaved myself on Tryfan" and another said "was wondering exactly what 'wrangled' entailed!"
Others simply declared their love of the term with someone saying "Wrangled. Great word" and another adding "Love that description 'wrangled to safety'".
For Ogwen it is their latest job on what is proving another busy year. In 2024 they were called out 176 times and they are well on track to match or even surpass that this year at the current rate. When you do that many rescues it's understandable that the social media team are running out of ways to describe them!
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