Volunteer rescuers brought a missing walker to safety after a search on Dartmoor.

Dartmoor Search Rescue Team Tavistock (DSRT) were called out by police at 9pm on Monday, last week (July 28), to help with a search for a missing person in distress ‘believed’ to be on the moor.

Police had received various reports of locations, including a sighting by a runner, indicating the person had walked from Plymouth to Burrator Reservoir and then out onto the open moor near Down Tor.

Several Dartmoor rescue teams, including one with a search dog, searched a wide area, finally closing in around Norsworthy Bridge car park beside the reservoir. A team found the the walker at about 10pm, cold but unharmed, and walked back with them to safety.