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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.
Wolf Crag crashed paraglider
July 25, 2021 13.30 hrs On Sunday 25/07/21 at around 13:30hrs, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out to an injured paraglider who had crashed just below Wolf Crags. At the time of the call the team were at Aira Force finishing a separate mountain rescue incident. A team of 5 members in a team Landrover…
Man in water at Brothers Water
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…
Woman stuck on ledge
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…
Several calls for Cockermouth Team over the weekend
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…