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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.
Cragfast on Striding Edge
November 6, 2024 4:18 pm At 16:18 on Wednesday 06/11/2024 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted by Cumbria Police to a woman in her mid-fifties with an underlying medical condition who had become crag fast whilst scrambling with her partner on Striding Edge. After a brief phone conversation with her partner it was clear that…
Leg injury Silver Crag
November 7, 2024 12 noon On Thursday 07/11/24 at around 1200hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out regarding a report of a walker with a leg injury on a footpath on the east side of Ullswater. The casualty had been walking with his wife along a footpath by Silver Crag, when he slipped and…
Ankle Injury Near Lanty’s Tarn
November 3, 2024 14:24 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted at 14:24 on Sunday 03/11/2024 when a solo female walker reported to the Police that she had slipped and injured her ankle whiles descending from Helvellyn. Eight team members responded to the callout and made their way to her location. After assessment and…