Incident
45 in 2010
Type
Location
Napes, Great Gable
Other Agencies
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Cumbria Police called out the team to recover the body of a 71 year old male walker who had been found by walkers below Great Napes Crags in the gulley between Sphinx and Arrowhead Ridge. He had sustained fatal injuries after falling around 20 to 30 metres. He had been missing for three days after setting off from Seathwaite. Keswick MRT and SARDA (Lakes) had been searching for the walker since he went missing. Nineteen team members attended and stretchered him back down to Wasdale Head. Incident closed at around 8.00 p.m.

Incident started at 13:43 and ended at 20:00 making 6.3 hrs in total. There were 19 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY20907 10050 (altitude 730 m). Total rescuer hours: 120

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