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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.

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…

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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…

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‘Chaotic Christmas’ in Lake District as mountain rescue teams run off their feet

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Fellrunner pledges to buy compass after mountain rescue call from misty Glaramara

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Lake District mountain rescuers plea after busiest-ever year

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Man dies while on New Year’s Eve walk with family

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Mountain rescue called to walker with ‘nasty injury’ in New Year’s Day emergency

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Walker rescued from 3,000ft Snowdonia peak after fall

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Derbyshire’s Edale mountain rescue team help fallen walker at Castleton in first incident of 2022

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19-hour search for walkers lost in Lake District by almost 80 volunteers

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