In the news

July 21, 2021 18.53 hrs At 18.53 hrs on Tuesday 20th July, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by North West Ambulance Service to reports of a male in his thirties who had gone into Brothers Water and disappeared from the view of his friends, who were on the lake shore. A Deputy Leader and…

July 21, 2021 14.42 At 14.42hrs on Wednesday 21st July the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was requested by Cumbria Police to assist a woman in her early sixties who had been walking on Gowbarrow above Ullswater and had got into difficulty trying to locate the way down to the main road. On speaking to her…

Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out on 17th July at 11:40, when reports were received of a female who appeared to be stuck on a ledge above Warnscale Bottom. Vehicles were dispatched to the area to try and pin down the location of the casualty. As the Team was nearing Gatesgarth, a second call…

The good weather brought a busy few days for Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team. Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on Friday 16th July  call-handlers from the Team were made aware of an injured man on Graig y Bwlch near Dinas Mawddwy.   The man, in his 60’s, had spent the early part of the morning photographing…

Working together with Mountain Rescue England and Wales, and Scottish Mountain Rescue, Helly Hansen has signed partnerships with four new teams from across the UK: Assynt and Arrochar in Scotland, North of Tyne in England, and Western Beacons in Wales. Helly Hansen and the new teams have one common goal: to save lives in the…

July 15, 2021 4 pm At around 1600 hrs Cumbria Police requested  assistance from the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team with regard concern for the welfare of a woman who had not returned to an agreed location after a walk. The missing person had been on a walk on Gowbarrow Fell with her husband  and decided…