Soldiers from the West Midlands saved the life of a Japanese tourist when they made a dramatic rescue in the Canadian Rockies during a training exercise.
Ten Territorial Army soldiers and officers from 35 Signal Regiment (Volunteers) were on the first day of a two-week North American adventure training exercise.
The soldiers discovered the man lying on a mountainside in agony after he had fallen and broken his leg.
They quickly gave him emergency first aid, dashed down the mountain for help and built an "alpine basket", or emergency stretcher, to lift the casualty off the mountain.
They alerted the air ambulance helicopter, which took the man to the nearest hospital in the town of Banff, Alberta.
The rescue came just before the regiment celebrated the freedom of the City of Birmingham at a parade last weekend.
Team members are from Birmingham, Rugby, Coventry and Shrewsbury.
The expedition leader Capt John Middler said: "We have checked out the patient's condition since he got back to Japan and are delighted to hear he is making a good recovery. "All my team behaved in a thoroughly professional way, and took on different tasks without a moment's hesitation."
The other expedition members were Maj Piers Ashdown, who was first on the scene, Sergeant Majors Kev Banningan, Andy Wilkins and Richard Roberts, Staff Sergeants Dave Dewfall, Rod Shelton-Smith and Colin Richards, Sergeant Dominic Anslow, Corporal Lorraine Cantrell and newly promoted Lance Corporal Zoe Trimm.
