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Northumberland’s mountain rescue teams have issued a reminder to hikers to have appropriate equipment and experience after wintery conditions returned over the Bank Holiday Weekend. Volunteers from Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team and North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team were called out to two separate missing persons incidents in the county. The teams were first called out on Friday afternoon to assist Northumbria Police in searching for a male missing from Haltwhistle. Keith Briggs, team leader for North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team, said: “We received a request from Northumbria Police to search for ahigh risk missing person in the Haltwhistle area.
The walker and his dog had been reported overdue by his wife just after 9pm. Iain Nixon, team leader for Northumberland Mountain Rescue Team, said: “The walker was officially three hours overdue. “Although conditions were clear, it was bitterly cold with a windchill at about minus 8C.” A full-scale search of the area around the Cheviots began with team members searching until after 1am on Monday morning. They then received a call came in from Northumbria Police to say that the missing walker had been found. The man had become disoriented and descended into the wrong valley. He eventually came across a farm cottage in the College Valley and from there called the police.