He spent nearly four decades with the RAF Mountain Rescue Team and three years with a civilian team. Many of the incidents that he witnessed during his time with the RAF team stayed with him for t ...

David Whalley, known to most simply as 'Heavy', dedicated his life to mountain rescue and public safety. His 37-year career in the Royal Air Force (RAF) Mountain Rescue Service saw him responding ...

The Hebrides Mountain Rescue Team posted on Facebook (above) that they were "very sad upon hearing of the passing of RAF and Scottish Mountain Rescue legend David ‘Heavy’ Whalley". The team ...

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The hillwalkers were reported missing shortly after 9pm on Saturday, with a Coastguard helicopter assisting Police Scotland, the RAF and Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team in searching the Aonach Eagach ...

a full callout was mobilised around 8.14pm involving nearly 50 people from various mountain rescue teams. These included Keswick MRT, Duddon and Furness MRT, RAF Leeming, RAF Valley and Coastguard ...

“So we just have to keep going and see what happens.” Heavy has decades of experience working as team leader for both the RAF Leuchars and RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue teams, he was Deputy Leader at ...

Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, the RAF Mountain Rescue Service and a coastguard helicopter were all called to help the walkers, amid reports one of the group had fallen and suffered a potential ...

Two off duty team members working in Cwm Cneifion who witnessed the event helped assist the winchman and RAF mountain rescue service. Despite the team's best efforts however, the victim did not ...