Incident
45 in 2012
Type
Location
Broad Crag Col, Scafell Pike
Diagnosis
Tagged

Whilst we were attending to the injured woman on Pillar we were alerted by the police about a walker on Scafell Pike who had severe cramp and was unable to descend. Once the first casualty was stablised the Sea King from RAF Boulmer winched four team members aboard and carried them to Scafell Pike to attend to the walker with cramp (this would have taken at least a couple of hours on foot). After the helicopter had taken the first casualty to Carlisle Infirmary it returned to carry the second casualty and the team members to Wasdale Head.

Incident started at 16:41 and ended at 19:45 making 3.1 hrs in total. There were 19 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY216075 (altitude 827 m). Total rescuer hours: 59

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