Cross Fell – Wed 6th Nov 2024
The team was asked to support Penrith MRT in an escalating search from the previous night. Happily, the walker was found well before WMRT deployment onto the fell in the Pennines. A great outcome.
Scafell Pike – Thu 9th May 2024
A call was received very early on Thursday morning about a lone male walker who had not made contact after a walk from Seathwaite towards Scafell Pike. He was reported overdue. The Team Leader gathered further information through the night and called out the Wasdale team along with Keswick MRT, Read more…
Cumbria – Mon 1st Jan 2024
A very sad start to the New Year. We were asked to support Penrith MRT for a large scale search in the North Pennines, along with many other Lakes MRT teams and other agencies. Two land search teams and the drone team were deployed to assist. Our thoughts and sincere Read more…
Eden Valley – Wed 25th Oct 2023
Penrith MRT requested additional support from the team for a multi-agency and multi-day search for a man who had fallen from a bridge into the River Eden. Soon after completing the search of our allocated area it was confirmed that the body of the man had been recovered by the Read more…
Scafell Pike – Wed 29th Dec 2021
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…
Penrith – Fri 2nd Mar 2018
Due to heavy snow there was a request to send a 4×4 with team members over to the east of the county to assist our colleagues in the Penrith Team. Along with Cockermouth MRT they were then tasked to head to Alston to do welfare checks as the ton had Read more…
Upper Eskdale – Sun 14th Jan 2018
The team spent 3 days searching for a missing walker on Scafell Pike. The walker was initially reported overdue from a walk on Scafell Pike on Sunday 14th January at 19:00. Team members who had already been to an injured walker near the summit searched in foul conditions but without Read more…
Straight Gill, Lingmell – Sun 15th Oct 2017
The team was called in the early hours of Sunday for a report of a walker overdue from a trip up Scafell Pike. A search started at first light and when the walker was not found in the first few hours the effort was ramped up with search groups from Read more…
Scafell Pike – Tue 21st Feb 2017
Whilst descending with the 4 casualties from above the Mickeldore stretcher box the team was informed of two overdue walkers who had set off from Seathwaite into the Central Fells. Keswick, Duddon and Furness and Wasdale mountain rescue teams searched in tough conditions, before returning to base after midnight, without Read more…
Scafell Pike – Fri 26th Jun 2015
Team called this afternoon for a walker with a painful leg injury who could no longer walk. The incident occurred near the top of Scafell Pike and given the long carry the Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team also joined the rescue along with a member of the Penrith team Read more…
Gavel Neese, Great Gable – Tue 11th Mar 2014
Wasdale team was called out at 10:50pm for a large search of both the Wasdale and Eskdale valleys lasting 18 hours. Colleagues from Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team, Coniston Mountain Rescue Team, Kendal Mountain Rescue Team, Cockermouth Mountain Rescue team, Keswick Mountain Rescue team, Penrith Mountain Rescue Team, Kirkby Read more…
Scafell Pike – Sat 7th Sep 2013
A couple of walkers in their twenties reported themselves lost near the summit of Scafell Pike. They had separated from the person in their group who had the map and were unable to make their own way down. Their location was determined using Sarloc and Team members went to guide Read more…
Buttermere – Mon 30th Apr 2012
The team was called out to assist Cockermouth MRT with a search for a missing fell runner in the Buttermere area.
2003 Rescue 05
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…