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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.
Group requiring assistance on Helvellyn
March 11, 2023 18:49hrs At 18.49hrs on Saturday 11th March the Duty Leader of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was contacted by Cumbria Police regarding a group of 9 men from the Manchester area who were somewhere on Striding Edge/Helvellyn area needing assistance to get back down to their vehicles. Contact was made with the group…
70th Anniversary of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team – 23rd
February 2023 Thursday 23rd February 2023 marked the 70th anniversary of the formation of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team. The Team came in to being on a Monday evening in 1953 at the Central Café on Cockermouth Main Street. Rusty Westmorland, George Fisher and Mike Nixon, members of the existing Keswick MRT, had come to speak…
Lost walkers on Cader Idris
Shortly before 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday 22nd Feb, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of two walkers lost on Cader Idris. The men, from Swansea and in their late teens and early twenties, were attempting to complete the Welsh three-peaks, having started on Pen y Fan earlier in the day. On…