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Keep up to date with everything going on in mountain rescue around England and Wales. For press enquiries, contact Andy Simpson, MREW Press Officer, via press@mountain.rescue.org.uk.
Exhausted walker rescued from Watermillock Common
October 9, 2021 2.20 pm At 14.20hrs on Saturday 9th October Patterdale Mountain Rescue was called by Cumbria Police to reports of a lady in her seventies who had been walking with friends on Watermillock Common above Swineside Knott. She had become exhausted, fallen numerous times and was unable to continue. The team responded…
Gravity Jet Suit delivers in emergency challenge with the North Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team
The beautiful but challenging terrain of Dartmoor National Park was the setting for a collaboration between Gravity Industries, which has developed and patented a 1050 brake horsepower Jet Suit, and the North Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team (NDSART). The exercises at Meldon Reservoir and Black Tor saw Gravity Industries Founder and Chief Test Pilot Richard…