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| Mourne Mountains: Pair rescued after 13 hour ordeal | Mourne Mountains: Pair rescued after 13 hour ordeal |
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| A father and son have been rescued after going missing for 13 hours in the Mourne Mountains. | |
| The pair had been camping on Sunday but when they failed to return at about 16:00 BST on Monday, their family raised the alarm. | |
| A search operation, involving the Mourne Mountain rescue team and the coastguard, got under way. | A search operation, involving the Mourne Mountain rescue team and the coastguard, got under way. |
| The pair are currently being brought off the mountain and are thought to be well. | The pair are currently being brought off the mountain and are thought to be well. |
| Lawrence Cumming from the Belfast coastguard said the Mourne Mountain rescue team had asked them for helicopter assistance. | |
| He said the pair had been unable to make it out of the mountains due to the weather. | |
| "Navigation in the Mournes is particularly difficult if you are not fully equipped with the navigation equipment needed to do that, or the experienced hill walker," he said. | |
| "Weather conditions yesterday, particularly early morning were atrocious. | |
| "It would have presented quite a few difficulties for people who were not entirely with navigation on mountains. This spell of bad weather has come upon us after a reasonable summer so people may have been caught unawares." |