The family of a climber who's lucky to be alive after plummeting around 300 feet off one of the highest peaks in the Inner Hebrides are searching for the men who saved him.
Mark Stuart from Milngavie, East Dumbartonshire, has made a public appeal on social media to trace fellow climbers who rescued his father on Friday.
His dad, who has not been named, was climbing The Great Stone Shoot on Sgurr Alasdair on the Isle of Skye when he fell around 300 feet.
Sgurr Alasdair is the highest peak on the Isle of Skye.
Graphic images show the climber's deep gashes, bruises and cuts on his head, face and legs but Mark said it could have been much worse.
On Saturday, Mark wrote on Facebook: "Miraculously my dad escaped with just severe bruising and cuts.
"There's a 99 times out of 100 chance that, if he did that again, he would be dead which really puts it into pwerspective."
Desperate to thank the men who saved his dad's life, Mark launched an appeal to trace the climbers through the social media post.
He added: "The reason for this post is to find these people.
"If it wasn't for the three gentlemen my old man would be lying at the bottom of a hill dead.
"So we would absolutely love if somehow we could get in contact with them.
"They comforted him, kept his spirits up, managed to get mountain rescue to him and get him airlifted to hospital.
"Not one of them took any form of credit but personally, I think they deserve all the praise in the world.
"They saved his life.
"My family want to thank them so if we can get this shared as much as possible we would be very, very grateful."
The post has been shared in a number of hill walking and climbing groups, with fellow climbers rallying round to track down the brave rescuers."
On Sunday Mark updated the post, claiming that one of the men had been found, but he was yet to trace the others.
He wrote: "We have managed to track down the Royal Marine Simon, so thank you.
"The other two go by the names Eric and Justin.
"They are from Chicago.
"One lives in Heidelberg, Germany but both are doing a tour of Europe.
"After Skye they intended to go to Glencoe then Oban.
"Thanks to everyone for sharing this so far, it's already helped us massively.
"Please keep this going."
A Skye Mountain Rescue spokesman told the Record: "I can confirm that a man did fall in The Great Stone Shoot on Sgurr Alasdair on Friday.
"Skye MRT remained on standby whilst he was uplifted to hospital by Stornoway Coastguard rescue helicopter."
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