Case Study: Skyrun Eryri Medical Cover

Delivering medical support across the Welsh 3000s — including Crib Goch, Tryfan and Snowdon — where exposure, technical terrain and remote access define the risk environment.

Snowdonia National Park • Skyrunning / Ultra • 2025
Skyrun Eryri runners traversing technical ridge terrain Snowdonia

Medical cover across exposed, technical mountain terrain where access is limited.

The Event

Skyrun Eryri is one of the UK’s most technically demanding mountain races, traversing the Welsh 3000s across exposed ridgelines including Crib Goch, Tryfan and Snowdon. The course combines steep ground, scrambling terrain and prolonged exposure, creating a significantly elevated risk profile compared to conventional trail or ultra events.

Events of this nature require more than traditional event medical cover. They require teams capable of operating within mountain environments, managing casualties in situ and understanding the realities of access, extraction and communication in complex terrain.

Our Approach

Our approach combined structured planning with proactive on-course presence, ensuring that support was both clinically effective and operationally realistic for a mountain environment.

Mountain-Aware Planning

Medical planning accounted for terrain exposure, access limitations and environmental risk, including heat illness protocols and remote response considerations.

Distributed Deployment

Medics were positioned across key locations including Ogwen Valley, Pen-y-Gwryd, Llyn Llydaw and Rhyd-Ddu, ensuring coverage across the full route.

Proactive Engagement

The team remained actively engaged with competitors throughout the day, providing advice, encouragement and early intervention.

Operational Delivery

Medical cover was delivered from early morning through to the final finisher at 23:30, with a flexible deployment model that adapted as runners progressed across the course.

The team rotated between key aid stations and mountain access points, ensuring continuous coverage across a highly distributed and evolving environment.

Despite the complexity of terrain and logistics, the event ran smoothly from a medical perspective, demonstrating the effectiveness of a structured yet adaptable model.

Mountain medical support Snowdonia aid station
Medical teams operating across multiple mountain locations throughout the day.
Skyrun Eryri event base Snowdonia
Supporting runners across one of the UK’s most demanding mountain race environments.

Clinical Reality on the Mountain

The team managed multpile race-related medical incidents throughout the day, the majority involving minor trauma from slips and falls on technical ground, alongside cases of heat illness and fatigue.

Whilst a competitor required hospital referral following a fracture, and several others advised to attend minor injury units for follow-up care, the vast majority of competitors enjoyed a very successful event. A small number cases of heat illness were successfully managed in the field by Peak-MR medics, following good pre-event preparation.

Why Peak Medical and Rescue

Skyrun Eryri required a provider capable of operating confidently within technical mountain terrain, combining clinical care with a practical understanding of access, environmental exposure and the realities of mountain event response.

Our approach gave organisers confidence that medical provision was not only present, but properly matched to the demands of the course — ensuring effective support across both routine presentations and more complex mountain incidents.

Specialist cover for remote, technical and high-risk mountain events

Related pages

See the wider model behind this delivery

This case study sits within a wider operating model combining specialist event medical cover, remote access capability and equipment designed for technically demanding environments.