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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.
Walker suffered seizure
December 4, 2022 10.30am On Saturday 04/12/22 at around 10:30 the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team received a call out from North West Ambulance Service with regard to a walker who had fainted and suffered a seizure. The walker and her friend had only just set off from Hartsop to walk to Angle Tarn when she…
Ankle Injury Thornhow End
November 27, 2022 16:30 hrs On Sunday 27th November at around 16:30 hrs Cumbria Police requested the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team’s assistance for a woman who had slipped and sustained a leg injury. She had been walking in the Grisedale Valley, descending from Birks towards Patterdale. The Deputy Leader contacted the casualty’s colleagues and, due…
Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation Honorary Doctorate of Science
We are pleased and honoured to announce that the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Sheffield Hallam University. ‘For its outstanding, sustained contribution to public safety and wellbeing through the service of selfless, dedicated volunteers’. The award was collected on behalf of the PDMRO by Matt…