The team were paged by the police to respond to a mobile ‘999’ call from three male walkers from the Lincoln area who were lost and crag fast in the Broadcrag area. A limited callout was made and around 10 team members attended. The walkers had left the bottom of Read more
Call from the Police to respond to a ‘999’ mobile phone call from a local man who was lost somewhere on the fells above Eskdale in the Blea Tarn area. When questioned he advised that he could see a large tarn with a house by it (suspected to be Burnmoor Read more
Call from the Police at about 2pm. It seems that a small group had lost contact with one of their number and were concerned about his safety. The informant had a mobile phone and was near Broad Crag/Ill Crag col. The missing person was a 59 yr old male, described Read more
Call from Workington Police, passing on a request from Ambulance Control. An informant was at Forge Farm,Eskdale, reporting a 78yr old male with a heart attack on Muncaster Fell. One of the Deputy Team Leaders had also received the same call out via First Responders and was already on his Read more
Group of 17 on a Duke of Edinburgh award expedition were descending to Wasdale Head via Sprinkling Tarn when one of their party, a 17 year old girl suffered a suspected broken ankle. The group were very well equipped and erected a tent. They raised the alarm by ‘999’ from Read more
Whilst searching for the collapsed walker a further group of four walkers were found sheltering in the Mickledore stretcher box. They were subsequently reported missing by the police but fortunately the team had already found them and escorted them off the mountain.
Wasdale MRT was called to rescue a young male walker who had collapsed on the summit of Scafell Pike. He was in a party of three who were doing the Three Peaks Challenge. The three walkers were all in the twenties and from outside the area. One of the party Read more
Team paged by police to rescue a walker who had suffered a soft tissue injury to his knee. The injured 47 yr old walker was accompanied by two walkers, one in his late teens and the other early 20’s. The group of 3 from the North-east had set off from Read more
Team paged by police after they had received a mobile ‘999’ call from a group of 5 walkers who had decided to scale the front of the Screes rather than continue along the Screes path. The group were carrying out a recce for the three peaks challenge. They had come Read more
The team asked by a local farmer in Wasdale to help search for a cow (in calf) that had not been seen for two days. 4 Team members and a search dog checked the low fell areas in and around Burnmoor Tarn that evening but the missing cow was not Read more
Team paged by police to attend a rescue on the Screes path. Casualty was a 74 year old lady from Liverpool who had taken a short tumble fall on the Screes path, suffering a bump on the head and bruising her back. She had walked across the boulder field before Read more
Message from the police to contact them regarding a rescue of a group of walkers on Scafell Pike. The group of 11 had left Langdale earlier that evening and had got as far as Ill Crag at 8.30 p.m. where some of the group turned back. The remainder headed for Read more
Message from the police regarding a female walker in her early 40s who had collapsed in upper Eskdale. The Team Leader called in Great North Air Ambulance and he, along with a team doctor were flown to the casualty site. Initial indications were that the air ambulance would be able Read more
The team were paged by the police to try and find a local lady in her early 70s who had been walking with her daughter on Muncaster Fell and become separated. The last time she had been seen was near the summit at 2.15 p.m. The lady was a mild Read more
The police paged the team to rescue a local farmer who had come off his quad bike and broken his leg up on Muncaster Fell. The Air Ambulance had also been called to the incident. 15 team members attended the rescue. The air ambulance managed to get to the farmers Read more
Wasdale MRT were asked to assist a 34 year old male fell walker who had taken a wrong turning when descending from Whin Rigg, at the top of the Wasdale Screes. He had become crag fast in Great Gully in a particularly inaccessible area and local knowledge of this very Read more
The police paged the team to attend to an incident after a report of a 59 year old male walker having fallen from Broad Stand. Broad Stand is a deceptively difficult route between Scafell and Scafell Pike. For many years it has been one of the accident black spots in Read more
Whilst the team were assembling for incident 24(a) Langdale Ambleside MRT (LAMRT) called the Wasdale team to assist with the search for a missing group of 14. Two walkers were known to be suffering ankle injuries but we believed the group was still together, albeit moving slowly. Contact had been Read more
Whilst the team were just about to send the second vehicle to the Muncaster Castle job (see below) a second call came in concerning a lady in her late 30’s who had slipped on the Gable traverse just to the west of Kern Knotts. It was reported to be a Read more
Following a mobile ‘999’ call, the team were paged by Whitehaven Police to rescue a 77 yrs old female with a broken ankle in Bluebell woods on the Muncaster Castle Estate. The lady was found with some difficulty as she was not on one of the designated paths, however as Read more