Walking Safety

Walking the Brecon Beacons wants you to enjoy the mountains safely and responsibly. All profits from WTBB’s commercial activities go to support local Mountain Rescue Teams, and they are there to help. But if you can get into, and out of, the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains safely, so much the better. Scroll down for tips for walking safety in the mountains and advertisements from local mountain guides and providers of hill safety courses.

Mountain Rescue Groups we support:

Longtown Mountain Rescue Team

Formed in 1965, to help people in difficulties within the Black Mountains on the Eastern Edge of the Brecon Beacons, Longtown Mountain Rescue Team members are now regularly called to assist in a wide variety of situations, where the police consider their expertise would be of benefit.

Find out more at: longtownmrt.org.uk

Brecon Mountain Rescue Team

Brecon Mountain Rescue Team operates principally in mid-Wales, working from the Brecon Beacons National Park north to Plynlimon, from the Welsh borderland westward, through mid-Wales to the Ceredigion coast, also working regularly being called to assist throughout south, mid and west Wales and around the English border.

Find out more at: breconmrt.co.uk

Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team

Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team’s operational area covers south, mid and west Wales, the central area of the Brecon Beacons, incorporating Pen y Fan and the Ystradfellte waterfalls, as well as Cardiff, Caerphilly, the valleys and Newport.

In late 2016 a handful of team members (perhaps unwittingly) became ‘the face of mountain rescue’ when they agreed to pose for a BBC ident slot, a piece of film which has continued to appear on our TV screens regularly ever since!

Find out more at: cbmrt.org.uk

Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team:

Formed in 1964 as the Bridgend Scout Mountain Rescue Team, changed in 1967 to Bridgend Mountain Rescue Team, and again to the Western Beacons Mountain Search and Rescue Team in 1997, the team covers one of the largest operational areas covered by a single mountain rescue team in the UK, responding to call-outs from two police forces, South Wales and Dyfed Powys.

Find out more at: westernbeacons.org.uk

While every care is taken to recommend safe routes and places to visit, hill walking and scrambling can be hazardous activities, with uneven surfaces, danger of falling and changeable weather leading to risk of sunburn and heatstroke, exposure, frostbite and hypothermia among other conditions. It is the responsibility of everyone venturing into the Brecon Beacons National Park to ensure that they are appropriately dressed and equipped with an adequate level of experience to undertake the activity they are intending. WTBB cannot be held responsible for any injury or death resulting from such an activity.