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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.
Busy Weekend for Mountain Rescue Team
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…
Helly Hansen announces four new mountain rescue partnerships
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…
Gowbarrow Fell missing person
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…
Ankle injury Beda Fell Knott
July 11, 2021 12.37pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 12.37hrs on Sunday 11th July to a female in her early sixties who had slipped whilst descending from Beda Fell Knott down to Dale Head Farm in Martindale. Due to there being no mobile phone coverage in the area the lady’s…
Cragfast couple above Deepdale Hall
July 5, 2021 6.45 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called at about 18:45 on Monday 5th July to assist a couple from Harrow in Middlesex who had become stuck descending the fell above Deepdale Hall. Team members ascended to their location and walked the pair off the fell before returning them to their…