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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.
Heat Exhaustion Gowbarrow
September 7, 2021 5 am At about 17:00 on Tuesday 7th September Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by Cumbria Police to assist a 73 year old woman who had developed heat exhaustion while out walking with her family on Gowbarrow Fell above Ullswater. She had collapsed and was unable to continue. Team members responded…
‘I was sliding towards the drop and couldn’t stop’ – the writer who fell from a mountain
It is every climber’s worst nightmare. In this extract from his thrilling book about the glorious – and treacherous – Cuillin Ridge on Skye, Simon Ingram recalls the day its wild peaks almost took his life