The team consists of 35 volunteers covering the whole of Caithness, Sutherland and part of Ross-shire.
A schoolboy who climbed Kilimanjaro when he was just 16 has become one of the youngest mountain rescuers in the country.
Matthew helped an 83-year-old struggling walker down from the mountainside in the Inverkirkaig Falls area last Sunday. This was followed up on Wednesday when he helped conduct a search at John O’Groats for a missing person. “School have been supportive of me joining the team and understand that I have to balance my education with the callout requests. I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro when I was 16."
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