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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.
Two walkers were descending Haystacks towards Inominate Tarn when one slipped descending a rocky step and took a short tumbling fall landing heavily on their lower back. The Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team made their way in from Dubs Hut at the top of the Honister Mine track. The casualty was assessed, and carefully packaged to…
Ankle Injury
April 30, 2024 3.30 pm On Tuesday 30th April at 15:30hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was contacted by North West Ambulance Service after reports of a man who had sustained a leg injury. The Team responded in two Land Rovers and members were able to drive to the location which was inaccessible by an…
Kayaker Rescued from Ullswater
April 27, 2024 8.12 pm At 20:12 on Saturday 27/04/2024 the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted by Cumbria Police to reports of shouts for help heard coming from a kayaker on Ullswater in the vicinity of Howtown. Team members responded to the call out and proceeded towards the scene in the Team RIB….
Wild Camper loses tent
At 21:50 on Saturday day April 20th Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by Cumbria Police to go to the aid of a young man who had misplaced his tent while wild camping on the fells above Ullswater. A 19yr old man had wandered away from his campsite at dusk and as darkness fell he was…