A mountain rescue team has stretchered a dog from a mountain after being stranded for 3 weeks. See Ross Parry copy RPYRESCUE A volunteer rescue team has saved a dog after a walker spotted him lying injured on a 700m-tall fell - and stretchered him a mile down the mountain. The lurcher-Saluki cross was spotted near a memorial cross that commemorates the crash of a Wellington bomber during the Second World War on Saturday and the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) were called out to go to the animalís aid. Team Leader Andy Jackson, 44, said eight members went up on to the Buckden Pike fell, 702m (2,303ft) up in the Yorkshire Dales. He said it was likely the dog, nicknamed by rescuers as Wufra, had been there for some time and had suffered a broken leg.