The Team Leader received a call from the Keswick TL at 3am for a missing walker believed to be somewhere on the Scafell Massif. He had separated from friends earlier the previous day having set off from Wasdale. Clues in the messages passed on from the informant led to a Read more…
Cumbria Police contacted the Duty Team Leader regarding a possible injured person in Sour Milk Gill in the Seathwaite area. The Keswick MRT Team Leader was immediately contacted and the job passed over to them.
The team was alerted by Cumbria Police regarding two males who needed assistance after spending an unplanned night on the fell. One was struggling in particular due to a leg injury and was becoming very cold. Due to the risks to the casualties, remote location and the potential for a Read more…
The team were called about 2 walkers, father and son, who were overdue and not contactable. A search overnight involving 12 Wasdale, 9 Duddon and Furness and 2 Lake District search dogs in very poor conditions was unsuccessful, some areas could not be searched because of the high river levels Read more…
The team were alerted by Cumbria Police regarding two males that were overdue returning from a walk up Scafell Pike, that had been called in by a concerned relative. Fortunately they turned up at a farm in Upper Eskdale and the team did not need to mobilise. Keswick MRT assisted Read more…
We were alerted by a passing walker of whistle sounds coming from the calf Cove area. As this was not in our patch it was passed onto Keswick MRT who kindly resolved the situation.
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about a walker with a medical issue. GNAAS attended and the casualty was able to walk down with assistance, with the crew and team members. Keswick MRT were able to locate the car at Seathwaite and ask the driver to drive round to Brackenclose Read more…
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about 2 walkers who were struggling to make progress whilst descending due to a sole of a boot becoming partially detached, plus nightfall arriving. As they were intending to walk down towards Borrowdale, Keswick Mountain Rescue Team kindly agreed to send a small group Read more…
The Team Leader was alerted about a male with an ankle injury near the stretcher box at Sty Head tarn. Once the location was confirmed the job was handed over to Keswick MRT who kindly took control of the incident. They called in helicopter support and the casualty was flown Read more…
A call came in to the team leader of a male with a knee injury on Broad Crag. Because of the unknown nature of the injury, stretched team resources after the previous job, a helicopter was called for. More Duddon team members kindly responded to assist. A team member already Read more…
While the first of the evening’s responses was just getting under way, a second call came in for a group of 3 walkers who had set off to walk up Scafell Pike from Seathwaite. There was also a suggestion they may have changed their plans. It was not possible to Read more…
The final incident of the day was an alert from Cumbria Police at 18:50 about a walker missing from a group of 8 who had ascended Scafell Pike from Seathwaite. The party had split into a faster and a slower group on the descent, but one of the slower group Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police about a walker who had sustained a knee injury and could not walk. As most of the available Wasdale team members were committed to an incident on Kirk Fell, Keswick team undertook to deal with this – many thanks to them – with Read more…
Langdale & Ambleside MRT Team Leader informed Wasdale MRT Team Leader that a party of six mountain bikers had been reported overdue. The intended route was to travel from Windermere to Wasdale Head via road and Fell. The informant, a family member, had been waiting at the Wasdale Head Inn Read more…
A call came in for some walkers with inadequate kit struggling to keep warm at Styhead. Keswick MRT was quick to get in touch with the Wasdale Team Leader to inform us it was a duplicate log of an incident that Keswick MRT were already dealing with. Due to the Read more…
This evening a Father and two sons contacted Cumbria Police to report themselves lost in the Scafell Pike area in extremely poor weather and visibility. Having set off from Seathwaite in Borrowdale they became disorientated in the poor conditions and were no longer able to follow the route up to Read more…
A young female sustained a lower leg and ankle injury at Sty Head Tarn. Many of the team were already on the hill for a training exercise and thus were able to divert direct to the casualty site. The injury was treated on site and the casualty stretchered off the Read more…
We were called by Police about a group of walkers who reported they were struggling to make progress descending Seathwaite Fell. As this was on Keswick Team’s patch we passed the incident over but continued to provide support.ÂÂ
We were called by Police about a walker who’d torn their quad muscle and could no longer walk. Due to their position and intended location the call was passed to Keswick MRT to deal with.
We were called by Police about reports of a group of walkers overdue from Scafell Pike and possible sightings of flashing lights observed at Seathwaite in Borrowdale. As the lights were more likely to be on the Borrowdale side our colleagues in Keswick Team kindly agreed to take on the Read more…