Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team has already surpassed their average number of call-outs in a year, after a busy weekend.
The team normally averages between 70-90 a year, but yesterday they responded to their 104th incident.
It came after a young couple got lost doing the Carn Mor Dearg circuit.
Lochaber team leader John Stevenson said: “They wandered off track and ended up in Coire Eoghainn. They got stuck above a waterfall.
“The cloud had lifted and the rescue helicopter 951 from Inverness was able to go in and lift them straight out, which saved us having to go up for them. They were fine.”
The weekend got underway with the 100th call out on Friday, when a woman fell and dislocated her shoulder on the
West Highland Way. She was picked up by forestry workers who had been working in the area.
At 3.30am on Saturday, the team received a call about an overdue walker on Ben Nevis. They went out but were unable to see anything and decided to return at daylight, by which time the man made telephone contact and was able to find his way safely off the mountain.
Later that day, there was a report of a walker with a leg injury at the top of the Ben. The team went to look for him but could not find him. The man later made contact to say he had been suffering from cramp but managed to walk off without help.
On Saturday night, the team were again called into action to carry a man who was severely dehydrated off Ben Nevis.
Mr Stevenson said: “It is certainly looking like a record year for call outs. It is the Ben Race next weekend, we usually think of that as being the end of the summer season. Hopefully it will quieten down a bit then, but there are still a lot of charity walks going on.
“The helicopters are a great help to us, we use them a lot. Without them there is no way we could cope with the demand.”