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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.
HF HOLIDAYS HELPS FUND DIGITAL RADIO EQUIPMENT FOR LOCAL MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
This week, Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were very pleased to announce a significant donation in the funding of their planned new radio communications system. Leading walking & activity tour operator HF Holidays donated £16,582 from their Pathways Fund to help replace the Team’s existing analogue radio system with digital one. As a co-operative society…
Ankle injury near Ruthwaite Lodge
August 19, 2021 15:45 At about 15:45 on Thursday 19th August a 43 year old woman injured her ankle while walking in the Grisedale valley with her family. With no phone signal, the husband and son walked down to Cruck Barn holiday cottage to raise the alarm, before returning to the casualty site. Patterdale Mountain…
Lost on Hart Crag
August 19, 2021 16:08 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called at 16:08 on Thursday 19/08/2021 to assist a husband and wife who had been walking the Fairfield Horseshoe when they became disorientated in cloud and started to descend NE from Hart Crag towards Hartsop Above How. The Team used the GPs on the couple’s phone…
Lost on Helvellyn
August 18, 2021 4 pm At 16:03 on Wednesday 18/08/2021 the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted by the police to a family party of 3 who had become lost while trying to descend from the summit of Helvellyn in cloud. The Team contacted the party and identified their location via the GPS on the…
Panic attack
August 17, 2021 7pm On Tuesday 17/03/21 at 1900hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team had just finished a call out on Scandale pass and was returning to base when they were flagged down by a member of the public. A woman in a group of tourists was suffering from a suspected panic attack and was struggling…
Knee injury Scandale Pass
August 17, 2021 4pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Tuesday 17/08/21 at around 1600. The report was of a young casualty who was doing his DoE with his school. The casualty had sustained a knee injury and was unable to continue. He was located at the top of Scandale Pass. His knee…