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One of the UK's most experienced mountain rescue experts has died at the age of 72. David Whalley was a Royal Air Force and mountain rescue veteran who died this week after being diagnosed with ...

Tributes have been paid to a mountain search and rescue veteran who was one of the first on scene at the Lockerbie disaster. David "Heavy" Whalley, who has died aged 72, served with the RAF Mountain ...

When one of Scotland’s legendary mountain search and rescue heroes faced a terminal illness diagnosis, the race began to pen his life story ...

Well-kent mountaineer Cameron McNeish has pointed to the lasting legacy of Scottish Mountain Rescue’s sorely missed legend, David ‘Heavy’ Whalley.