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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.

Lake District hikers trapped in fog after climbing the wrong peak

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New Lake District visitors push rescuers’ ‘avoidable’ incidents to new high

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Female with child stranded on Yew Crag

12/12/2020 Yew Crag, Gowbarrow Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist a woman and her child on Saturday night after they became stranded on Yew Crag. While the Team was responding the pair, who were equipped with a torch, managed to retrace their steps and make their way safely down to the roadside where…

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‘Lucky escapes’ among 241 avalanches last winter

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Mountain rescue team launch search after 999 call from walkers is lost

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Lakeland campers rescued after getting lost in cloud on Grisedale Pike descent

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Buxton Mountain Rescue Team encounter chaotic 24 hours as snow falls

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New off-road car is early Christmas present for Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team

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Keswick Mountain Rescue Team pays tribute to search dog Meg

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Lost walkers on Cader Idris

At around 2:30 p.m. on Monday 30th November, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a fragmented call received by Dyfed Powys Police, suggesting that walkers were in trouble on Cader Idris. Further broken conversations with the informant indicated that the two male walkers had become separated at some point on…

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