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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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Rescuers post record of major Peak District incident
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Six-hour rescue as Lakeland mountain walkers get lost
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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
Mobile Phones
Mobile Phones
Maximise your mobile
Your mobile phone may not be the most reliable way of calling for help. Batteries can very quickly run flat and signal coverage in the hills is still a hit and miss affair. That said, the use of mobiles has grown enormously in the last ten years and the majority of calls for mountain rescue help are made by mobile. The days of running down the hill to the nearest telephone box to summon help – it would appear – are well and truly over.
So, how do you make the most of your mobile phone and maximise your chances of maintaining contact once you've called for help?
- Keep your mobile in a plastic bag somewhere warm and accessible, where you can hear it in the prevailing conditions. And pack a spare battery in a separate plastic bag.
- If the signal is poor, stand still! Keep the phone in one position to maintain the connection.
- Shelter the microphone from the wind and increase the receive volume settings as necessary.
- Fully charge the battery (and the spare!) before setting off.
- Minimise your call time to conserve battery power.
- Schedule your point of contact calls and switch off by arrangement, when not required.
- The police or coastguard may establish a calling schedule with you - for example, every 20 minutes or so – between which you may arrange to turn off your mobile phone.
- Check for coverage with every phone in the party. Use one phone at a time to preserve batteries – or swap batteries.
- If there's only one phone and it shows no coverage, disconnect the battery for one minute and reconnect. Switch on and try again.
- Consider taking all the available phones to a more prominent location to get network coverage. Take care not to get lost in the process and remember that sometimes a ten minute walk up the hill is sufficient to get you a signal, rather than running down the valley for an hour.
- If you cannot move and/or have insufficient network coverage to make a voice call, try sending a text message from all the available mobile phones in your party, to your point of contact.
- In a number of mountain areas, the deaf, hearing and speech impaired can now send an emergency 999 text message to a dedicated number. In Cumbria, for example, this is 07786 208999. Refer to the appropriate police authority for more details – before you set out!