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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.
89 year old unable to continue walk over Place Fell
September 16, 2024 6.15 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue team was contacted for a second time on Monday the 16th September by Cumbria Police at 18:15. On this occasion the elderly gentleman who had been walking on Place fell with his wife had started down a steep decent, sat down for a rest and found he…
Lost on Glencoyne Traverse Path
September 16, 2024 4.15 pm On Monday 16th of September PATTERDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM was contacted by Cumbria Police at 16:15 to help assist a person who had lost their way walking from Aira Force to Glencoyne. The walker, who was from the USA and staying in a local hotel, had contacted the police initially…
Wild Campers needing assistance
September 14, 2024 On Saturday 14th September just before Midnight the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team received their third call of the day from Cumbria Police for a group of four males caught out by the weather conditions. The group had set off from Glenridding late evening with the intention of climbing to Sheffield Pike to…
Walkers disoriented in poor conditions
September 14, 2024 18:40 On Saturday 14th September at 18.40hrs Cumbria Police contacted Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, for their second call of the day, to attend a couple who had become lost in poor conditions on the Helvellyn range. The pair had set off from Glenridding earlier in the day and had headed up onto…