Meditator Gives Rescuers Cold Shoulder
A Buddhist who climbed a Welsh mountain to spend the winter solstice weekend communing with nature was rudely interrupted when a helicopter and search team arrived to rescue him.
Rescue workers left their Christmas party to scale Cader Idris in north Wales after another climber told police he had seen a man there with a head injury.
When the rescue helicopter picked out the man with a searchlight and guided climbers to him, the 50-year-old man told them to go away.
“There were a lot of crossed wires over this incident,” said Barry Skinner, spokesman for the search and rescue team.
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