On the 18th June, having successfully and uneventfully summitted the Inaccessible Pinnacle at Sgurr Dhearg, I was walking back out to the car park at Glen Brittle. 

About 3km from the car, I lost my footing, tumbled and struck my head on a boulder with enough force to crack the helmet I was wearing.  The angle that I'd hit the rock at sent a shockwave down my spine that shattered my 6th thoracic vertebra, leaving me unable to get down the hill myself. 

22 volunteers from Skye mountain rescue carried hundreds of kilos of kit up the mountain by foot in cold and wet conditions,  putting their own wellbeing at risk, in a 9 hour recovery operation to get me below the cloud line where a helicopter could take me to hospital. 

Everything they did was in good humour and with not only my safety but my constant comfort in mind. I'm asking my friends to donate to Skye MRT to use the money as the team see fit to continue their vital work.