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Every Life Matters

Episode 2 of 12

A woman needs to be airlifted to safety after a fall in Devil鈥檚 Kitchen, a sheep is stuck in a mineshaft, and the police drone unit seeks out a teenager lost on a mountain after dark.

It takes the skills, local knowledge and teamwork of multiple emergency and rescue agencies when a woman falls in a notorious part of the Ogwen Valley. After slipping on rocks in a place known as Devil鈥檚 Kitchen, she鈥檚 in agony and can鈥檛 move, leaving the mountain rescue and coastguard helicopter teams with the challenge of how to get her off the mountain to safety. Before that, they must negotiate encouraging her to take enough pain medication, so she can be winched to the helicopter and airlifted to hospital.

Mountain rescue face a more unusual call-out: a sheep is stuck in a mineshaft and will die if not brought up to safety. Willing to help any living creature in danger, two volunteers abseil to reach it. Unfortunately, the sheep isn鈥檛 overly keen.

In Porthmadog, it鈥檚 every parent鈥檚 worst nightmare when a teenage boy is missing on a mountainside in pitch darkness. The police drone unit joins forces with volunteer rescue teams in a bid to find him and bring him back to his anxious parents.

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Executive Producer Arwyn Evans
Executive Producer Rachael Barnes
Series Producer Jenny Dafydd
Series Producer Simon Barnes

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