In this first episode we are introduced to some of the major characters. The first rescue involves Jamie ending up balanced on the edge of one of the rocks whilst attempting to rescue a photographer who has fallen. Two brothers are out walking when one trips and hurts himself. He ruptures his spleen , but the team have a long time to wait for a helicopter to arrive. Douglas has to rescue a diabetic who is in danger of going into a coma. Caroline wants to join the rescue team, but the others are wary of her because her father has donated money to the mountain rescue service.

In the opening sequence Douglas who is riding his bike collides into the car of nurse Helen, an argument follows and Douglas rides off and leaves her. Mike helps to rescue a girl trapped in a cave and the only way out is to crawl under tunnels. Jamie, Douglas and Annie have to rescue rope climbers who have fallen. Jamie is not very happy when he discovers his mother is now a consultant at the hospital. Despite their differences Douglas and Helen decide to go out for a meal together.

Douglas and Helen have begun a relationship. The team rescue two boys who have become stranded above a waterfall. Caroline and Jamie get to talk at her fathers rather grand party. Gordon's daughter Kirsty returns from university . We discover that Douglas is her godfather, she borrows money from him and borrows Gordon's car without asking leaving him unable to get home. Ben still finds it difficult to accept Caroline onto the team and we think that he may have secret that he is keeping from his brother.

In this episode some of the rescuers dress up as they would have done 100 years ago to raise funds for the rescue service. On their treck across the mountains they get involved in a real rescue, eventually helping a woman with MS to stand to see the views around her. Doug resigns as deputy as his boss has told him that he will have to take his rescue days of out of his annual leave. Caroline rescues a man who has fallen and whose wound is covered in flies and maggots. We find out that he is the son of Doug's boss Dennis and therefore Doug no longer has to resign. We discover that Jamie has a brother who has been missing for several years and is now believed to be dead. After her dramatic rescue of Dennis' son Caroline is voted onto the team, with a special recommendation from Ben.

Episode 5 is part 1 of the final story in the series. Annie and Ben get into an interesting conversation about dreams whilst on the hills serching for a chopper which has crashed. When they find it they are taken hostage by the survivors, the leader is an escaped prisoner and he forces Annie and Ben to take them to his pick up point. The other rescue involves a man who is successfully rescued after falling from Dragon's Tooth Sea Stack. Mike gives the man chocolate with nuts in unaware that the man has a nut allergy.

The story continues from episode 5. Gordon's wife is planning a surprise party for his birthday. Peter begins to worry about Annie and Ben and sets off to look for them. Gordon and Doug go to rescue some monks trapped on a hill. First of all it seems to be a quite a humorous situation, but there is a rock-fall, both Doug and Gordon have fallen, only one can go up again.

This episode opens with Douglas doing exercises, he is obviously thinking about going back on rescues, though Helen is not so keen. The first rescue involves a hand gliding accident. The hand glider is caught on cables. The second rescue involves a couple who have been rambling, the man has fallen into the waterfall.

Mike is driving along to the tune ‘The Boys Are Back in Town'. He stops to give rope and equipment from his shop to a construction team who are setting up an aerial. Meanwhile two men from the same team are driving along when their land rover goes off the road and down a cliff. Mike goes to the rescue. Doug has got the all clear to go back on rescues again. Helen is not pleased about this. He goes with Ben and Annie on the second rescue involving a climber who has fallen down a mountain whilst stealing falcon eggs. Annie goes to see Ben to see why he is avoiding her.

This episode opens with Doug having another nightmare about climbing. There is only one rescue in this episode, but we return to Adam, the amputee from last week's rescue. Caroline witnesses his fiancée rejecting him. The rescue involves a man Duncan, who is found walking, with cuts to his face and in a daze by Peter and Ben out together for a run.

The rescue involves two climbers who fall down a rock. The wife of one of them can't get through to her husbands mobile phone and alerts the rescue team. Mike decides to make a video for a dating agency and Caroline films him. Jamie goes to see them. Caroline needs her annual assessment by Peter, but Jamie tells her that he has been asked to do it instead. Helen wonders why Doug is so moody and cold towards her and Jane suggests that he is still affected by his fall.

We open with Jamie and his friend Ian Baxter taking part in a cross country cycle race. They get into an argument, Ian falls down the rocks into the river below and Jamie climbs down to help and falls himself.

This episode begins with 4 teenagers who wander into a drain that belongs to an old dam to have a ‘party'. There is a storm and water seeps into the drain. One of them manages to swim out and alerts the rescue team. One of the boys is Jason Farinelli, Betty's son and Annie says that the others are in the sixth form at the school where she teaches.

In this the penultimate episode the rescue involves 2 women, one who is blind and one who is partially sighted. Their leader Graham tells Danny where their route will be and they set off. Graham has a heart attack and the women are left alone. Foolishly the partially sighted woman wanders off, believing that they have more chance of being rescued that way.

Douglas and Gordon are involved in a serious accident together. The episode opens with the snow falling that we saw at the end of the previous episode. We realise that the conditions are treacherous and the team hears that there has been an avalanche, two young people who have been skiing are missing.