 The most southerly team in the British Isles is Cornwall Search and Rescue Team, however it has always had strong links with mountain rescue.In 1965, Climbers’ Club custodian Jim Smith established the first mountain rescue post in the South West at the Carn Galver Count House at Bosigran in West Cornwall.Rescues at Bosigran, famed for its 200-metre climb “Commando Ridge” nicknamed after the World War II commandos who trained there in preparation for wartime cliff assaults, would be performed by other climbers who would go to the Count House to collect the rescue equipment.