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A review of the Sir Chris Bonington exhibition at Rheged, and a mountain rescue tale Ask most people in the UK to name a famous British mountaineer and they’ll say Sir Chris Bonington. This time last year, media reporting of his view that mountain rescue is ‘a sport’, in which our volunteer team members engage because…
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After a short intermission (for which we can only apologise), our long awaited blog post following on from our August animal rescue tales… With eighty-odd years of organised mountain rescue service under our belts, we’ve quite an archive of rescue stories to delve into, from around England and Wales. Last time, on the back of…
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… mountain cats and crocodiles. Must be August. August dawns and right on cue the rain is back, the heating’s on, sheep are launching themselves at unsuspecting walkers and navigation by horse is headline news. Whether the horse in question was entirely cognisant of his (or indeed her) part in the story is unclear. Unlike…
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The BBC programme makers caught up with Scarborough and Ryedale team members for a rescue reconstruction Teams are often invited to take part in programmes such as ‘Countryfile’ or ‘The One Show’. It’s a great opportunity to showcase mountain rescue but can be a logistical challenge given that team members already volunteer so much of…
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… to photogenic dogs and donate buttons, raising funds for mountain rescue Just before the Second World War, when the first green shoots of a more organised mountain rescue service began nosing their way into sunlight, things were very much hand-to-mouth. Rescue parties used their own climbing and mountaineering equipment, uprooted gate posts and five-barred…
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