A SCOTS traveller has been hailed a "hero" by towering rescuers for abseiling 150ft and movement for dual hours in the dim to assistance save his harmed friend. Paul Manson, 32, from Edinburgh, told how he had well known he had to "do something" to stop his crony Sam Burns from frozen after he fell in the Cairngorms.The span had been rock climbing on crags nearby Shelter Stone when the collision happened at around 4pm on Saturday.Almost at the top, Mr Burns, 25, fell and was left swinging from the precipice face by reserve ropes. He had damaged his hip and leg. Mr Manson abseiled down to his crony and was means to cut a chair in the sleet prior to relocating Mr Burns on to it. He afterwards walked down by a small ravine for dual hours to fetch help.Cairngorms Mountain Rescue Team personality Willie Anderson said: "Without his cool mind and capability it could have been a really opposite outcome."
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