The partner of a walker who was overdue returning from a walk with friends up Scafell Pike contacted the police to raise the alarm. However, very shortly after the Team Leader started to make enquiries the group turned up back at their vehicle safe and sound and the team were Read more…
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about eight walkers who were reported overdue from a walk up Scafell Pike. While the Team Leader was gathering information, one of the group returned to the valley and contacted the police to say that the rest were all OK and not far behind. Read more…
The team were called about 2 walkers, father and son, who were overdue and not contactable. A search overnight involving 12 Wasdale, 9 Duddon and Furness and 2 Lake District search dogs in very poor conditions was unsuccessful, some areas could not be searched because of the high river levels Read more…
We were contacted by police when a friend of a lone walker said he had not heard from him after a walk on Scafell Pike. No messages had been delivered to the walker’s phone and it was not possible to make contact with him. A search was initiated, with limited Read more…
A call was received by the police about a group of 10 who had reportedly gone up Scafell or Scafell Pike and not been heard of after 13.00 hours. The original larger group had got split up the evening before, some ending up at Ambleside MRT base because of the Read more…
A family member of two walkers contacted the Police out of concern as they had received an sms message detailing that the two walkers had become lost on their ascent of Scafell Pike from Seathwaite. After a period of investigation and a conversation with the family member it was confirmed Read more…
The team were alerted by Cumbria Police regarding a concerned relative who had themselves received a distress call from a party of two walkers attempting to climb Scafell Pike. There was reference to a stretcher box, so team members were tasked with searching routes close to Sty Head and also Read more…
The team were alerted by Cumbria Police regarding two males that were overdue returning from a walk up Scafell Pike, that had been called in by a concerned relative. Fortunately they turned up at a farm in Upper Eskdale and the team did not need to mobilise. Keswick MRT assisted Read more…
The following day the areas were extended and searched by a number of Lake District MR teams. Wasdale team were tasked to search two areas close to to Turner Hall Farm in Dunnerdale. Shortly after completing the first area, the good news was received that the missing person had been Read more…
The team’s search dog Jess and handler were requested to support Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team in a search for a missing person in the Ulverston area last week. On this occasion nothing was found.
The team was called in the early hours of Sunday for a report of a walker overdue from a trip up Scafell Pike. A search started at first light and when the walker was not found in the first few hours the effort was ramped up with search groups from Read more…
The team was contact by Cumbria Police at 06:17 for a group of two who were reported overdue from their attempt at the 3 Peaks Challenge on Scafell Pike. The pair were dropped of near to the Wasdale head at around 23:18 on the 23/10/2011 and set out to do Read more…
We were contacted by Police regarding a walker who was reported overdue by his wife. The man had set off to climb Scafell Pike from Boot that morning and apparently had not yet returned. We were fortunate to be able to make contact with the walker just as he came back into mobile phone signal and he Read more…
Group of eight Three Peakers reported long overdue on their return to their vehicles. The Team Leader decided to wait and see if they would eventually turn up. Weather forecast was good and they would probably make their way off safely at first light. The missing persons turned up safe and Read more…
Call came in from the police for a party of five walkers who were overdue from their walk up Scafell Pike from Seathwaite. Whilst the Team members were gathering information for a potential search later that evening the informant called back to the police to say that they had established Read more…
Call came in from the police for a missing male and female walker who had set off for the summit of Scafell Pike early that morning. While the Team Leader was gathering information and checking the car parks for their car, the call came in from the police that they Read more…
Team was paged by the police for overdue walkers. The three had set off to climb Scafell Pike at 8.30 a.m. and 14 hours later had still not turned up. As more details were being gathered they turned up safe and well. Incident closed at around 10.30 p.m. with no Read more…
Call came in from Cumbria Police regarding two rock climbers who had failed to return at 6.30 p.m. They had been climbing on Esk Buttress. The team Leader waited until 10.35 before doing a full callout. As seems to regularly happen, once the full team had been called out the Read more…
Call from Police for two missing Three Peakers. A group of four walkers had set off from Wasdale Head at 5.00 a.m. to climb Scafell Pike in wet and windy conditions. They separated on the way up and a 40 year old male and female pair became lost on their Read more…
Call came in to the team leader directly from a local guest house about a 52 year old who had got split up from the rest of his party. The party had got back down from the mountain at 7.30pm. but the man was still overdue. As they were discussing Read more…