In the news
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.
Arm injury – Lake shore path
May 20, 2024 2:32 pm At lunchtime on Monday May 20th Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by the North West Ambulance Service to an incident in the area of Silver Point, on the shore of Ullswater, below Place Fell. A 78year old woman had taken a stumbling fall, sustaining an arm injury and facial lacerations….
Three crag-fast walkers at the bad step
May 14, 2024 On the evening of Tuesday 14th May Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by Cumbria Police to an incident just below Helvellyn of three people in their early 20s who could no longer make their way down the fell and were crag-fast. A team of seven Mountain Rescue Team members were dispatched to…
Ankle Injury on Striding Edge
May 6, 2024 8:02 pm On the weekend when Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was celebrating its 60th anniversary, a call from the Police tasked the team to an incident on a section of Striding Edge, known as the “Bad Step”. Initial reports stated that the casualty, a 27 year old man from Hull, had lost his…