In the third request for our help on Saturday evening, a call was received from Cumbria Police. Walkers who were wild camping in Upper Eskdale had heard shouts for help indicating that someone was lost. Unfortunately the mobile signal was very poor and the informant was not able to be Read more…
A second call on Friday afternoon was received from Cumbria Police about a walker who had rolled over on her ankle and had suffered a suspected fracture. Two passing walkers had assisted greatly by walking some distance to obtain mobile signal and call 999. They had also shown initiative to Read more…
The Team Leader was alerted by Cumbria Police about two walkers who had lost the path in the dark and were concerned for their safety. Happily, after only a few minutes after the first call, they managed to find the path and quickly called to stand us down.
We were called by Cumbria Police about five walkers who had got lost on the descent from Scafell Pike. They had intended to return to Seathwaite but some of the party felt unable to do that, so they were advised to descend to Wasdale Head and get a taxi, which Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police about 2 walkers who had lost the path in mist on Scafell Pike/Great End. It was not possible to contact them and Phone Find didn’t locate on this occasion but fortunately the mist cleared enough for them to get their bearings and make Read more…
We were alerted by Cumbria Police to an urgent call. A lone walker had been observed by other nearby walkers to have collapsed and was unconscious. The walkers tried to resuscitate the person and called for help. The location was high up on the Scafell massif at the top of Read more…
Two walkers reported themselves lost somewhere on Scafell Pike. There was no other information and it was not possible to contact them. Because of the weather, no knowledge of the missing people’s clothing, experience, medical status and so on, a full team callout was initiated, and routes allocated to five Read more…
We were alerted by a passing walker of whistle sounds coming from the calf Cove area. As this was not in our patch it was passed onto Keswick MRT who kindly resolved the situation.
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about two walkers who had reported themselves lost near the summit of Great End. They were given directions and managed to walk most of the way down before they were met by team members and Dog Jess, with torches. They were accompanied the rest Read more…
A call came in of a gentleman with head and leg injuries after a fall on the Corridor Route (again). He was in a group of eight. After several phone conversations with the Team Leader the group took it upon themselves to walk off towards Stockley Bridge. The casualty was Read more…
The team were called by Cumbria Police after receiving a 999 call from a lady lost on her descent back to Wasdale (NT car park) from Scafell Pike. Her call had initially been taken by Lancashire Police and she had only been able to give the first word of a Read more…
A call came in at 20.57 from a lone male with severe cramp, unable to move and very frightened. Police tracking had located the casualty at the far end of Upper Eskdale, given the location, the team took an early decision to ask for assistance from the Coastguard Helicopter as Read more…
Last night the team were called by Cumbria Police regarding two walkers reported overdue by their families. As we had limited initial information to go on there was a period of information gathering which resulted in a callout for the team at 01:21hrs to search the paths to Scafell Pike. Read more…
We were called by Police about a walker who’d twisted their ankle whilst descending the Corridor Route on Scafell Pike, near to Skew Gill and could no longer walk. They were accompanied by Teesdale & Weardale members who provided initial medical treatment. Once on scene the limb was splinted then Read more…
We were called by Police about 3 walkers who were reporting themselves benighted on the summit of Scafell Pike. It was initially difficult to contact the group but once a Sarloc trace was obtained it was determined they were actually on Great End rather than Scafell Pike and we passed Read more…
We were called by Police about 2 walkers reported overdue from a walk on Scafell Pike. Using the ‘find my iPhone’ function it was determined they were likely to be somewhere near the Corridor Route. Search teams were deployed from Wasdale & Keswick Teams along with a Coastguard Helicopter from Read more…
As we were finishing the Brown Tongue incident we were asked by our colleagues in the Keswick team to support them in rescuing 4 people cragfast in Central Gully on Great End. Keswick team members were able to lower them down most of the gully then they were helped down Read more…
We were called by Police about 2 walkers reporting themselves lost whilst trying to return to Seathwaite from Scafell Pike via the Corridor Route. Their initial position was established with help from SARLOC and attempts were made to talk them down. Unfortunately these were not successful and a small team Read more…
We were called by Keswick Team to assist them with an ongoing rescue on Great End. Not long after we had mobilised we were stood down as there was much more certainty in the local and condition of the casualties and Keswick Team were confident they could deal with the Read more…
Team called by Police about a couple of walkers reporting themselves lost / benighted on Scafell Pike. Phone contact was difficult due to poor signal but they were able to pass on coordinates from their iPhone which placed them just below Stand Crag on the corridor route. Due the communication Read more…