LandSAR celebrates 90 years of callouts

August 2023

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LandSAR has been helping people in the outdoors for 90 years
LandSAR has rescued lost, missing and injured trampers in more than 30,000 operations over nine decades. “Across the board, it’s always very busy for us, and 90 years later, it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down,” says LandSAR fundraising manager Jon McQueen. It started with the ‘Sutch Search’ in April 1933, when four trampers went […]

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