Cave rescuers are human too: on long weekends, we also escape from the town - we go hiking with or families, or throw ourselves into ongoing cave exploration projects. On such weekends, our duty officers always has a harder time assembling the required number of rescuers than for an operation starting on a regular weekday evening.
Fortunately, we had no such difficulties on Pentecost Sunday. Around 2 PM, we received a report and a call for help about an accident at Vadálló-kövek and an injured hiker with a leg injury. In record time—within half an hour—the first of our team members reached the injured person. Luckily they had been camping nearby around Visegrád, attending the Adrenalin Caving Association's weekend event. Soon, 29 of us gathered, including four of our doctors. This was such a rare “summit” of medical presence that we can’t even recall the last drill with so many of them in one place. Two members of the Bakony Cave Rescue Service also participated in the rescue.