Incidents where the casualty is unable to move due to the terrain.
The team were paged by the police to respond to a female who was crag fast in a quarry near Bigrigg, Egremont. Clints Quarry is an overgrown disused quarry with steep sides. The lady had been walking round the quarry when she fell down the bank but her fall was Read more
The team were paged by the police to respond to a mobile ‘999’ call from three male walkers from the Lincoln area who were lost and crag fast in the Broadcrag area. A limited callout was made and around 10 team members attended. The walkers had left the bottom of Read more
Team paged by police after they had received a mobile ‘999’ call from a group of 5 walkers who had decided to scale the front of the Screes rather than continue along the Screes path. The group were carrying out a recce for the three peaks challenge. They had come Read more
Wasdale MRT were asked to assist a 34 year old male fell walker who had taken a wrong turning when descending from Whin Rigg, at the top of the Wasdale Screes. He had become crag fast in Great Gully in a particularly inaccessible area and local knowledge of this very Read more
Ambulance Control phoned the deputy team leader to advise that they had just taken a ‘999’ call from an informant who had heard shouts for help and then seen a walker waving his arms. He was crag fast high up on the Screes above Wastwater. The person was a male Read more
The team were called up on the radio from a Duddon & Furness team member who was on Mickledore observing a group who had spent an hour trying to locate a safe descent down from Scafell. They were in danger of becoming an incident on Broad Stand so he intervened Read more
The police called the team to attend to a walker who was suffering a panic attack on the rock step, Corridor down from Scafell Pike. The walker along with his/her group of eight was ‘crag fast’ so a small group of four team members who were already at the Head Read more
Call from Workington police regarding two female walkers who were stuck on Great Gable on steep ground with very large rucksacks and needed rescuing. The Team Leader decided to sit on it as it did not constitute an emergency. When rescue 27 was completed the team called Workington police to Read more
The Team were called in by the police to rescue an elderly lady and her dog who were stuck on the Screes path opposite the road junction half way along the Lake. A limited callout was put out on the pager system requesting the Boat Squad (group of 4 trained Read more
The Team was paged by Workington to rescue a male walker in his late thirties who had become crag fast whilst descending Scafell Pike. He was on a mobile phone and through a description of his location along with a grid reference, it placed in him the region of Dropping Read more
Workington Police contacted the Team to respond to a call for help from two cragfast walkers. The request was for Scafell Pike but their location was actually above Broad Stand on Scafell. A limited callout of team member took place at 2152 hrs once details had been established. Two team 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 were called to respond to a mobile phone ‘999’ call from three male walkers who had become cragfast on the Wastwater Screes. From information received, they were initially thought to be located slightly above the lakeside path. A limited callout was put into motion and a group of Read more
Call from the Police at about 1700hrs. Two people (man and wife) in their 60’s had walked from Boot, over Burnmoor and along the Scree path on the southern side of Wastwater. They’d got stuck on the scree, about 100 metres from the water edge. The team leader spoke to Read more
Workington police paged the team to attend an incident at Wasdale Head. A male and female walker had become cragfast the previous day and spent the night on the fell. In the morning the man had scrambled out of the Ghyll to raise the ‘999’ alarm through another walker he Read more
Whitehaven Police called again to report a climber stuck on Yewbarrow. The climber was rescued whilst the first incident was being dealt with. These two incidents happened within 15 minutes of each other and effectively split the resources of the team in half. Regardless of this, both incidents were managed Read more
Whitehaven Police called the team to assist a crag fast walker who was stuck above Broad Stand. He was located approximately 60m above the Mickledore Col, at the top of Broad Stand but crag fast on the slippery surface, 30 metres across towards Mickledore Chimney. He was lowered off the Read more
The team was called to rescue two ladies who were stuck on the Screes path. A limited call-out was undertaken and the two ladies were transferred across the lake by the team’s rescue launch. Whilst half way across the lake the second call came from the police to attend to Read more
Call from the police to rescue two walkers stuck on the Screes by the lake. A limited call-out was made with the rescue boat launched from the lakeside whilst the advance vehicle went directly to the pump house. The walkers had managed to get themselves safely off the Screes by Read more