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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.
Leg Injury Aira Force
June 4, 2022 1.20 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 13.20hrs Saturday 4th June reporting that a woman in her sixties had fallen whilst walking at Aira Force. 10 team members attended the scene where they found the lady sat on a bench. On speaking to her they established that…
Woman fallen at Hartsop
June 3, 2022 3.30 pm At 15.30hrs on Friday 3rd June 2022 the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was contacted by North West Ambulance Service following a report that a woman in her twenties had fallen around 30 metres in Hartsop below Brock Crag area. The Duty leader made contact with the woman’s partner and…
Injured Forester above Aberllefenni
Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday 31st May, call handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a 20 year old forestry worker with a reported ankle injury on steep ground above Aberllefenni, near Corris. The man had stepped into a gap between rocks, but had then lost his balance and fallen…
Hip injury, Dovedale
May 30, 2022 3:41 pm On Sunday 30/05/22 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out to an incident where a woman had fallen, injuring her hip. The team located the casualty on the bank of the shallow Dovedale Beck behind Hartsop Hall. The casualty had been in the river building a dam with her grand…
Ankle Injury
May 21, 2022 12.35 On Saturday 21st May at 12.35hrs Cumbria Police contacted the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team regarding a report of a man in his twenties who had tripped and heard a loud crack in his ankle whilst on Rest Dodd in Martindale. The team mobilised onto the hill, making their way to the…