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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.
Exhausted walker on Striding Edge
April 11, 2022 17:18 At 17:18 on Monday 11/04/2022 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alterted by Cumbria Police to a report of an exhausted walker on Striding Edge. The reporting person was contacted by mobile phone and, after an initial assessment, they were encouraged to make there way slowly down with the exhausted walker. Meanwhile,…
Ankle injury Gowbarrow
March 19, 2022 4pm On Saturday 19/03/22 at around 1600hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called to a walker who had slipped and injured her ankle. With the use of phonefind technology the casualty was quickly located on a footpath below Gowbarrow fell. On arrival at the scene the team doctor stabilised the ankle injury…