A hillwalker has been airlifted to hospital with head injuries after a fall in the Highlands.
Rescue teams from Kinloss and Dundonnell were scrambled alongside Stornoway coastguard after reports of an injured walker.
The man suffered head injuries during a fall in the Gairloch area at around 4pm on Monday.
He was picked up by a rescue helicopter and flown to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
A coastguard spokesman said: "The casualty is a male, we believe possibly in his 40s.
"He suffered head injuries in some sort of fall about two miles east of Charlestown."
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