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…
Call came in from a concerned husband whose wife and 4 year old child were overdue. The family had set off from Wasdale head camp site to walk up to Burnmoor Tarn. The father and 11 year old son carried on up to Ill Gill Head but when they returned Read more…