Callout 09 in 2009

For the third time in four days Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to assist walkers who had become lost in cloud and darkness. Today a party of three walkers had become disorientated in cloud on their way up Scafell Pike. They turned back but were unable to navigate Read more…

Callout 06 in 2009

The team was paged by Cumbria Police to respond to a ‘999’ call for a 35 yr old female climber who had fallen on Great Gable by Westmorland Crags sustaining fatal injuries. The casualty was airlifted and flown to Whitehaven hospital by a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer. 16 Read more…