Call from the police to investigate a report from an informant from North Hants who was descending from Scafell Pike when he witnessed a party on Flash Knotts (below Lingmell Crag on the northern side of Piers Gill) set off a red flare trying to attract the attention of rescue Read more
Call from the police to rescue two walkers in their twenties who were lost on Scafell Pike (adjacent to a stretcher box). After giving advice over the mobile phone, the team leader walked up to meet them at the bottom of Mickledore making their way slowly, but safely down the Read more
Call from the police to rescue a group of four Duke of Edinburgh children who had become separated by the beck (in flood) on the Scafell side of Brown Tongue. One team member walked up to assist the group safely off the fell. Rescue completed by 1800 hrs.
The team was called to rescue two ladies who were stuck on the Screes path. A limited call-out was undertaken and the two ladies were transferred across the lake by the team’s rescue launch. Whilst half way across the lake the second call came from the police to attend to Read more
A rucksack was found at the bottom of Shamrock on Scafell by a person exiting Lord’s Rake. Gear was strewn for 20 meters down the crag. A limited callout was made to check out the situation but as no missing person call had been made the search was stood down.
Call from the police to rescue two walkers stuck on the Screes by the lake. A limited call-out was made with the rescue boat launched from the lakeside whilst the advance vehicle went directly to the pump house. The walkers had managed to get themselves safely off the Screes by Read more
Call to investigate cries for help on the Screes path. Limited call-out undertaken but it turned out to be a well intentioned false alarm. Found farmer gathering sheep.
Report of a large fully packed abandoned rucksack at Styhead. Two team members investigated and found it to be a small sack of firewood left for a camping party. No further action taken.
Request for support from Cockermouth MRT to help search for a missing runner /walker who had failed to turn up at Seatoller following a man hunt game. He had been last seen at Beckhead in the early afternoon. The Wasdale deputy team leader carried out a limited call-out to undertake Read more
The team leader received a call from the Wasdale Head Hotel regarding three missing people (doing the three peaks). Originally a group of 7, they had split up having left the summit of Scafell Pike at around 1900 hrs. Four of them had made it back to Brackenclose by 2030 Read more
Call from Workington Police. Two more men, reported missing by the wife of one of them, from Brampton. They had spoken to her by mobile phone at 1500 hrs. to say they were on the summit of Scafell Pike. At 1700 hrs. they had a further conversation to say they Read more
Team leader and a team member carried out a sheep rescue on Kern Knots. A local farmer’s wife had rung to ask if we could get two cragfast sheep out of the right side of the crags. I’m afraid one jumped but we did get the other and lowered it Read more
The team leader was called directly from the Wasdale Head Inn by a Wasdale team member. A lady was extremely concerned that her husband had not returned from a walk somewhere in Wasdale. They were here on holiday (from Jersey) and were staying with friends at Bigrigg. Her husband had Read more