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An experienced climber was soloing Window Gully on Great End and had almost completed the climb when he triggered an avalanche.
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TWO RESCUE MISSIONS IN TWO HOURS
TWO mountain rescue missions were launched in less than two hours over the weekend.
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Rescuers post record of major Peak District incident
A Peak District rescue team has turned the camera on its activities for an account of a major incident this weekend.
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Six-hour rescue as Lakeland mountain walkers get lost
Five walkers were rescued from England’s third highest mountain after getting lost in the dark.
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BBC News and Sport Search: mountain rescue
A walker is airlifted to hospital with multiple injuries after falling 50ft down a cliff in the Peak District.
A pensioner who went missing from sheltered accommodation in Caithness is found dead on a beach.
A fire officer tells an inquiry into the death of a woman who fell down a mine shaft in Ayrshire that the rescue was a "success".
Police officers based at a nuclear site are among 60 people looking for a missing 65-year-old man.
An MSP says rules which may have stopped rescue workers pulling a women from a mine shaft must be reviewed.
Police are co-ordinating what they have described as one of their biggest search operations for a missing person.
Renewed warnings are issued after a climber survives an avalanche in the Lake District.
An inquiry into the death of an Ayrshire woman who fell down a mine shaft is told it collapsed just hours before the tragedy.
A fatal accident inquiry into the death of an Ayrshire lawyer who fell down a mine shaft hears of delays during the rescue effort.
The names of two climbers who were swept away by an avalanche in the Highlands are released by police.
Police identify a woman who died after her 4x4 was swept down a swollen river on the North York Moors as she tried to negotiate a ford.
Two skiers are airlifted to safety after being caught in an avalanche in the Cam Ghleann area of Glencoe.
Police divers find a woman's body near a car which was swept away in flood waters on the North York Moors.
An underwater police team conducts a search of the River Wear after a 30-year-old woman goes missing.
Two climbers swept away by an avalanche in the Glencoe area of the Highlands have died, police confirm.
The families of two Teesside men injured in an avalanche on a Lake District fell have thanked their rescuers.
A walker is being treated in hospital after he was seriously injured in a fall while on the north face of Ben Nevis.
Rescuers say two men were "very lucky" to survive after an avalanche swept them 750ft (228m) down a fell in the Lake District.
Two climbers are swept 750ft (228m) down a fell after triggering an avalanche in the Lake District.
A walker who became lost on Snowdon is airlifted to safety in poor weather conditions.
From BBC News
Medical
Medical Equipment
By far the greatest innovations in mountain rescue equipment have been in medical and cascare. Some – such as the Little Dragon breathing apparatus – have been developed specifically for mountain rescue use, others adapted from ambulance paramedic practice. Each one of them improves the already high level of casualty care delivered on the hill.
The Little Dragon, developed for the treatment of hypothermia, produces warm air for the patient to inhale, either independently, or with assistance. It works by passing air through soda lime cystals which have have had a small quantity of carbon dioxide introduced into them, giving a controlled temperature reaction.
The array of equipment on hand might include pulse oximeters, blood sugar and blood pressure monitors, defibrillators, even canulas, drips and artificial airways. (Of course, team members are comprehensively trained to use these items of medical equipment where appropriate.)
Lightweight oxygen clylinders, Entonox analgesic gas and comprehensive resuscitation kits have their own carrying bags – as do the vacmat and casbag. Smaller items are grouped together, according to potential need, in medical rucksacks, and most teams also carry smaller kits, assigned to those most likely to be first on scene, to enable initial first aid treatment before further team members and equipment arrive.
For splinting limbs a wide range of splints are used, from limb-sized vacuum splints to traction splints. As we said earlier, we've moved a long way from the five barred gate and finger post splints of our predecessors!
