A brief alert when the team was called by Cumbria Police about a party of three family members that were overdue and uncontactable during a walk up Scafell Pike. The Team Leader asked for car parks to be checked for the group’s vehicle, but happily as further information was being Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police about a party of three walkers who were lost on Scafell Pike. The Team Leader was able to gain an accurate location via Phonefind, which was in Upper Eskdale, this was significantly off course for their intended destination of Wasdale. One of the Read more
A short alert when a group of seven walkers were reporting themselves lost after aborting an ascent of Scafell Pike due to the winter conditions. However, as the Team Leader was gathering information it was confirmed that the group had fortunately met up with other walkers who were able to Read more
During callout 6, five inexperienced walkers were reported overdue by their friend after setting off for an impromptu walk up Scafell and Scafell Pike from Upper Eskdale. Most team members deployed for the ongoing callout in Wasdale were asked to hold for possible redeployment and additional team members were also Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police about two walkers who were reported as being lost in the snow. They had reported this to friends who had then called the police when they became overdue. Happily, as the Team Leader was gathering information and considering calling the team out, another Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police from a relative of a lone walker. He had not been in contact for over 24 hours, having known to have been on Scafell Pike on Sunday morning. He had subsequently sent a video from an unknown location at 2pm. Once the video Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police on Christmas Eve. A very broken mobile call was passed through with very vague details but included the words ‘Scafell’, ‘foggy’ and ‘van’. The mobile number was unconfirmed. With very little to go on, the Team Leader asked a team member to check Read more
A short alert for the Team Leader when a walker called Cumbria Police concerned for their friends’ safety. A party of 20 walkers had set off to climb Scafell Pike, with 5 turning around, concerned about the weather and the lack of daylight remaining. As the Team Leader was gathering Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police about a walker who had become disoriented in misty conditions on his descent from Scafell Pike. The Team Leader managed to establish an exact location via Phonefind and was able to confirm that he was now on the correct path. After a brief Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police about two walkers who had become disoriented on their descent, turning towards Piers Gill rather than Wasdale at Lingmell Col. The Team Leader managed to establish their exact location via Phonefind directed them to the correct path. Regular updates from Phonefind made this Read more
The Team Leader was alerted very early this morning about a lone walker who was in need of assistance. He was camping close to the summit of ScaFell when strong winds destroyed his tent. He was cold, disorientated and needed some guidance to descend to safety. The Team Leader was Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police from a person at a campsite in Eskdale. A member of their family had not been heard from for some time after their car had come off the road on Hardknott Pass at 10pm the previous evening. The driver was an experienced walker Read more
A call was received from Cumbria Police about two walkers who had mis-navigated on the descent from Scafell Pike. Our friends from Duddon and Furness MRT had agreed to cover the patch as many members of the team were attending the happy event of the wedding of our Medical Officer Read more
An alert from Cumbria Police was quickly resolved when two walkers were reported overdue from a walk up Scafell Pike. As soon as a standby been sent to the team, there was a confirmation that the police had managed to contact one of the walkers. They were safe and well Read more
A short alert was swiftly resolved after a family member reported two walkers overdue after summiting Scafell Pike earlier in the afternoon. As the Team Leader was gathering information having put the team on standby, the good news was received that the overdue walkers had been in contact and were Read more
The team was called briefly by Cumbria Police to assist them with a search for a missing person. A family member was concerned for their safety. However, as the Team Leader was requesting the closest team members to search car parks for a vehicle, the police confirmed that they had Read more
A call was received about a walker who was struggling to descend from Scafell Pike. He was suffering from cramping of his legs and had also taken a fall suffering minor cuts to his hands. The Team Leader made contact and agreed that after taking on some salty food and Read more
A call was received on Saturday morning from Cumbria Police. A walker in a party of 6 was reported to be feeling ill on Scafell Pike, and couldn’t descend. However the call dropped out before any details could be obtained, including phone numbers. With no further calls received after an Read more
A late night call was received from Cumbria Police regarding three 3-peakers who had taken a wrong turn on the summit plateau and ended up at Mickledore stretcher box, cold and wet. Other members of the wider group had made it back to the valley and had called it in. Read more
A relatively brief callout after Cumbria Police called us about a pair of walkers benighted in Eskdale without head torches. This time Phonefind gave a nice result, with a location not too far from the Wha House car park (quite often at this time of night it turns out to Read more