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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.
Lakes teams inundated with callouts over Christmas and New Year
Watch the BBC Breakfast interview at 7.25 this morning.
Car stuck on Kirkstone Pass
January 4, 2022 14:23 hrs At 14.23 hrs on Tuesday 4th January a report was received by the duty leader at Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team that vehicles were stuck on the Kirkstone Pass with possible damage and it was unknown if any injuries had occurred. On liaising with Cumbria Police they requested that the team…
Ankle Injury
January 2, 2022 16.30 hrs At 16.30 hrs on New Year’s Day Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was requested by North West Ambulance to assist a woman who had been walking with her family and slipped on a wet grassy path, fallen and heard a crack from her ankle. The family had been descending Low Dodd…
Persons lost on Nethermost Pike Area
January 2, 2022 2:10 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 17.50 hrs on New Year’s Eve to reports of two males who had requested assistance after becoming lost due to the low cloud and being overcome by darkness. The location of the two men, who were from the West Midlands…
Patterdale MRT assist with major search in the Central Lakes
December 30, 2021 06:30 At 06:47 on Thursday 30th December Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team received a request to assist Wasdale MRT with a search for a man and his 11 year old son who had gone missing after setting out to climb Scarfell the previous day. The search had been started the previous evening. A…