Paged by the Police following a ‘999’ call for missing climbers who had spent the day on Scafell. It was clear night and the team leader decided to wait to see if the missing climbers would turn up. The climbers turned up safe and well, one hour later at 9.27 p.m., incident closed with no team members on the fell.
Incident started at 20:37 and ended at 21:27 making 0.8 hrs in total. There was 1 Wasdale team member involved. Total rescuer hours: 0.8
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