- Incident
- 72 in 2022
- Type
- Alert — Injured & Medical
- Location
- Brown Tongue, Scafell Pike
- Weather
- Hot, Sunny
- Diagnosis
- Knee Injury
The Team Leader received an alert regarding a party of four who were descending Brown Tongue. One of the walkers was requesting help as he had developed sudden pain in both knees having summited Scafell Pike. There had been no injury or fall. After a conversation with the Team Leader the casualty was able to self-rescue with the aid of the other members of his group. We are grateful to them all to have managed to do this and prevent a callout.
Incident started at 11:58 and ended at 19:36 making 7.6 hrs in total. There was 1 Wasdale team member involved and the incident occured at NY 200073. Total rescuer hours: 8
