‘999’ mobile call to Cumbria police from a concerned informant regarding overdue walkers. The team leader was gathering details from the police when the overdue walker turned up at Seathwaite safe and well (He was supposed to be in Wasdale where the car was parked). Callout cancelled with no team Read more…
‘999’ mobile call to Cumbria police from walkers who were lost after descending Scafell Pike. The team leader established that they were located at the corner of Piers Gill where it comes up against Straight Gill (less than 50 metres from the incident 72). He advised them to retrace their Read more…
Paged by the Police following a call for help to locate a group of 5 adults and 1 teenager who had set off that day “to climb a mountain somewhere in Eskdale or Wasdale”. They were all staying in a guest house in Eskdale. As the informant, the wife of Read more…
Paged by the Police following a call regarding 3 missing/overdue walkers in the Kirk Fell area. The Deputy Leader made the decision to take no further action at this time but to wait. The three missing walkers turned up safe and well at Seathwaite at 8.06 p.m.- No further action Read more…
Paged by the Police following a ‘999’ call for missing climbers who had spent the day on Scafell. It was clear night and the team leader decided to wait to see if the missing climbers would turn up. The climbers turned up safe and well, one hour later at 9.27 Read more…
Paged by the Police at 00.30 hrs. Informant was in Essex, reporting husband (61) and son (31) overdue from a walk on Scafell Pike. They were staying in a caravan near Haverigg and should have parked at Seathwaite (Borrowdale). The last contact was at 4pm (by mobile) at which time Read more…
Following a serious 4 vehicle road traffic accident on the A595 at Calderbridge, the team leader and team doctor (at the rescue base at the time of the accident) attended with advance vehicle and casualty care equipment. The road was closed for 6 hours. One of the drivers in the Read more…
Whilst the team were returning from incident 66, they were flagged down by a driver who had driven his van down a lane and slid off the track into the side of the track. He asked for assistance. The vehicle was towed out and he went on his way, happy Read more…
Not exactly a team callout but as close to one as you could get. Self rescue and a very close shave. Boulder slide at Foxes Tarn which trapped a walker and very nearly ended as a major rescue – see true story for detailsThere have now been a couple of Read more…
The team were paged by the police following a ‘999’ from a three peaker support vehicle in Seathwaite. Two male three peakers (42 and 22 yrs) had set off from Seathwaite at 5.00 p.m. to climb Scafell Pike after climbing Ben Nevis earlier that day. They did not return so Read more…
The team were paged by the police regarding overdue walkers. The walkers turned up at 11.05 p.m. safe and well. Incident closed and no further action taken.
The team were paged to search for a missing girl. Call originated via police from a gentleman who had been up Pike and descended the Corridor route back to Seathwaite, Borrowdale. Granddaughter had gone off in front on way down and Grandfather lost contact near Piers Gill at ~13:30. She Read more…
The team were paged by the police to deal with a mobile ‘999’ on Scafell. A lone male walker was descending back to Boot in Eskdale on a due south bearing when he came to crags and became unsure of his location. He was in low cloud and judging by Read more…
Call from the police regarding a missing lady on Kirkfell. The team leader decided to wait a further hour before taking action. The missing person turned up safe and well at 7.00 p.m. No further action necessary – recorded here for information only
The team were paged by the police to attend to 4 Three Peakers who had left Wasdale at 2:00 hrs to climb Scafell Pike and had not returned to their support vehicle. Whilst the Team Leader was gathering more information the group turned up safe and well (but in the Read more…
Police paged the team with regards to a ‘999’ call for a missing group of 10 walkers who were late back from their walk. Whilst the team leader was gathering information the police were notified that the missing group had turned up safe and well so the callout was cancelled. Read more…
Whilst the team were starting the search for incident 42, a second call came in concerning a further group that were long overdue on their return to Wasdale from ascending Scafell Pike. The team leader put this incident on hold allowing additional time for this group to turn up. Whilst Read more…
Whilst the team were ascending Brown Tongue for incident 42 they overtook a group of 11 who were doing the 3 peaks challenge. (less than ideal conditions for the challenge). On the descent from Lingmel Col with the 3 rescued walkers, the team met this group of 11 making their Read more…
Police paged the team to respond to a ‘999’ call from two male walkers who had become lost descending from the summit of Scafell Pike – the team leader called them on their mobile phone, established that their location was in the Piers Gill area and talked them both back Read more…
Police paged the team. Two people (adults) were using a mobile phone to report that they were lost on Scafell Pike. No-one was injured but they were requesting support from the mountain rescue. After a little while the Team Leader was able to establish contact and had a conversation in Read more…