BANGOR, Wales, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Prince William helped rescue a hiker in Wales two days after announcing his engagement, the man who was saved said.
The prince, 28, is a search and rescue helicopter pilot based at RAF Valley in North Wales.
On Thursday afternoon, a four-man RAF Sea King helicopter rescued Greg Watkins who was stuck 3,000 feet up Mount Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain, the BBC reported.
Watkins was winched onto the helicopter and flown to a hospital in Bangor. He is believed to have suffered a heart attack and has had surgery.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Watkins, said, "If it wasn't for him and the rest of his crew, I'd be dead. ... The winchman helped me out and on to a stretcher and whispered 'Prince William's just flown you here.' I looked up at him and just said 'Oh. Tell him thank you.'"
A Defense Ministry said: "Flight Lt. Wales was called out, as part of a four-man RAF search and rescue crew, to assist a man suffering from chest pains on Snowdon.
"The man was subsequently flown to a local hospital for treatment."
