Man’s best friend to the rescue
It’s a fantasy landscape of majestic peaks and imposing valleys that Corkman Neil Powell has called home for most of his life. But it’s a chilly night in Scotland 23 years ago that the man who has given his life to mountain rescue will never forget.
It was Christmas Eve, 1988. Just three days earlier, Pan Am Flight 103 crashed at Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground. The RAF flew Powell and his mountain rescue dog, Pepper, from their home in Newcastle, Co Down to Scotland to help with the clean-up.
