DARTMOOR Search and Rescue Team Tavistock were last week called to help a walker who had got stuck on top of a tor.

The search team was called by the police last Tuesday at 5.30pm after a walker had reported that his 20-year-old male friend had climbed to the top of a tor and was stuck there, unable to climb back down.

The caller was unable to name the tor or tell the team what direction it was from his current location at Merrivale.

The team's local knowledge suggested a couple of tors that were most likely and when the team set out, he was soon located on a rock stack at Great Staple Tor.

Team members used ropes, slings and carabiners to assist the man down and escorted him from the moor.

Apart from being extremely cold, he was uninjured.