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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.
67 year old man falls at Scarth Gap
Scarth Gap Callout 29/06/19 Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out at roughly 15:45 on Saturday 29th June. The Team was requested to assist a 67-year-old male walker who had fallen whilst descending from High Crag to Scarth Gap, above Buttermere. The casualty had multiple wounds and due to the mechanism of injury, support was…
Fatigued 84 year old on Cader Idris
At about 8:45 p.m. on Thursday 27th June, and midway through a technical rope rescue training session, Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team call-handlers were alerted to a man struggling on the descent from Cader Idris. The 84 year old man, from Stratford upon Avon and part of a well equipped family group of three, was…
Man with panic attack on Hallin Fell
Tuesday 18/06/2019 16:57 On 18th of June at around 1700hrs Cumbria Police received a call from a woman who reported that her partner had had a panic attack and was unable to move. The team responded and spoke to the informant over the phone and managed to obtain an exact location through the use of…
Man Taken Ill on Cader Idris
At about 2:30 p.m. on Monday 17th June, Call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a walker having seizures near the summit of Cader Idris. The 59 year old man, part of a group of 7 climbing the mountain, was taken ill a few hundred metres short of the summit of…
50th anniversary of Cockermouth Team tragedy
Saturday 15th June 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the most tragic event in Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team’s history. At approximately 12:30 on the 15th June 1969 there was an unprecedented rock fall at Low Crag where the team was training. One team member, John ‘Jock’ Thompson, was killed in the incident and a second,…