Telephone call from the police to assist a group of four adult walkers who were tired and overdue following their walk up to Scafell Pike. They had descended into Eskdale and were making their way back up towards Esk Hause. Their location was Knotts of the Tongue (bottom of crags Read more…
Call from the police to search for a missing 41 year old walker who was participating in the three peaks challenge with his 15 colleagues. They had already climbed Snowdon and were making their way up the Pike from Brackenclose when the missing gentleman decided to press on ahead of Read more…
Call from the Police to rescue a 41 yr old male three peaker. He along with his colleagues had set off from Seathwaite to climb Scafell Pike. On their return from the summit, on the Corridor route, he had a fit. 10 members of the Wasdale team supported by the Read more…
For interest, the Keswick MR Team Leader rang on the Monday morning at about 09.30am. He’d been up till about 2.45am trying to resolve the case of a missing person on Scafell Pike and was ringing to tell me the outcome. The case involves a man and wife who become Read more…
Call from one of the team members who lives at the Wasdale Head. They had the wife of a man who was very late back from doing Great Gable. She’d last seen him part way up at about 12.30pm but there was also medical history that gave us cause for Read more…
Call from Workington Police regarding two overdue walkers. The two brothers from Barrow, 21 and 29 year old had set off from the green at Wasdale Head to climb Scafell Pike. When they hadn’t returned home the alarm was raised. In addition to the Wasdale team, Keswick, SARDA dogs and Read more…
The remembrance Sunday gathering on the summit of Great Gable had just concluded and the 500 plus fell goers and climbers were descending their various descent routes. Cloud was down to Styhead Pass and it was raining, very windy and cold (5 degrees on the summit). A 59 year-old male Read more…
A paged message received from Workington police to request assistance for two cragfast and lost walkers, initially reported as two girls but subsequently established to be a male and female in their mid twenties. They had left Langdale earlier that day to climb Scafell Pike via Angle Tarn and Esk Read more…
The team were called by Workington Police to rescue a 29yr old male walker who had become cragfast on steep scree on Great Gable. He had been descending when he lost his way in thick cloud. He managed to call the team on his mobile (battery on low) and advised Read more…
The Team Leader received a call from the Keswick team to assist in the search for two walkers who had become benighted on the top of Great End and had requested help using their mobile phone. The Keswick team thought they may need to search along the ridge towards Broad Read more…
The police paged the team just after midnight to look for a missing walker assumed lost somewhere between Wasdale and Langdale. A male in his mid-twenties had left Wasdale Youth Hostel to walk to Langdale Youth Hostel. He had failed to turn up. His route was not known.Wasdale MRT, Keswick Read more…
The Wasdale Team Leader was called by the police at 1730 hrs. following a ‘999’ mobile phone call from four male walkers in their forties. They were lost on the ridge following their return from doing Scafell Pike and just ‘needed some directions’. They had set off that day from Read more…
Called in to support Langdale & Ambleside MRT (LAMRT) to search the Scafell range for a missing father and son long overdue. Their car was in the Langdale Valley and they had set off early the previous day from Burnley to climb Scafell Pike. They were ill equipped with no Read more…
Call from the police to deal with a group of walkers on mobile phone lost on Scafell Pike. They were qui ed by the team leader who continued to deal with the incident until it became apparent that they were at Esk Hause . The rescue was handed over to Read more…
Wasdale team were called to assist in the search for a 59yr old male walker who had left the Old Dungeon Ghyll to tackle Bowfell / Esk Pike / Broad Crag / Scafell Pike / Scafell (via Broad Stand) and returning back to Langdale. His car was still at ODG Read more…
Police received a mobile ‘999’ call from two male walkers in their 40’s via an informant in the south of the country. It was a group of three who were doing a recce of Scafell Pike for the 3 Peaks challenge. They had become lost as a group of three Read more…
The Wasdale team leader was called by Keswick MRT to assist with the rescue of two female walkers who were lost, most probably in the corridor area on their way to Scafell Pike. There car was parked at Seathwaite. One of the ladies was reported to have a broken leg. Read more…
Keswick MRT called in Wasdale MRT to assist in a search for two missing walkers. The male and female walker had failed to turn up at their hotel and their car was still parked at Seathwaite. A number of SARDA search dogs and handlers were mobilised along with the Keswick Read more…
The team were called to find a long overdue walker who had left Seathwaite to climb Scafell Pike and had failed to turn up. Keswick Team and SARDA (search dogs) were called out and Wasdale put 5 search parties out on the Wasdale and Eskdale sides. He was found safe Read more…
Team leader called by police to deal with a missing lady overdue from a walk with her husband when they became separated. They had walked up from Seathwaite, via Esk Hause to Scafell Pike. They then descended to the bottom of cam Spout and made their way back up to Read more…