Incidents responding to a casualty who is injured or suffering from a medical condition.
Paged by the Police following a report of a fallen walker on Great Gable above Arron Slack. The 51 yr old male was in a party of 4 descending when he tumble fell approximately 50 metres sustaining a head and leg injury and was bleeding. A Sea King helicopter was Read more…
Report of a 14yr old walker with an ankle injury on Scafell Pike. The team were mobilised and 19 team members attended. The young man was actually found in Calf Cove near Great End by Keswick team and they dealt with the rescue, taking the party back to Seathwite. Wasdale Read more…
Male walker reported with a broken leg on Scafell Pike. The walker was between Piers Gill and Broad Crag Col. He was given cas care and stretchered back down to the valley bottom. 17 team members were involved in atrocious weather.
Police paged the team to go to the help of a female walker who had fallen 6m into a gulley by Greta Gill off the Corridor route. She had received a head and facial injuries and was with a party of 10. While the team were making their way to Read more…
Call from the police to go to the rescue of an 18yr male walker who was out with his family walking in Miterdale, Eskdale when he slipped and fractured his leg. An air ambulance was also tasked for this job and managed to evacuate the casualty before the team arrived Read more…
Call to the police from a party of 8 on Great Gable. The group were descending from Westmorland crags when one of the group, a male in his thirties, slipped and tumble fell. He injured his shoulder and sustained lacerations to his cheek. The team administered cas care and anesthesia Read more…
A ‘999’ call received concerning a female walker with an injured lower leg on Scafell Pike. The wife had fractured her leg whilst descending. She was with her husband and daughter and located on the path between Hollowstones and Lingmel Col, Scafell Pike. 16 team members attended and she was Read more…
A group of four 16-17 year old DoE doing gold award reported a female member of their party as cold and potentially hypothermic near Scafell Pike. It was established that they were actually near Allencrags Gill at the head of Langstrath. They had full camping gear. Deputy team leader established Read more…
While the team were administering casualty care to a fallen walker (see incident 54) , a second incident occurred. A male walker in his 40’s descending from Scafell via Broad Stand, slipped from almost an identical area, landed amongst the team members and cart wheeled off down the scree a Read more…
Callout by the police for a male walker in his 20’s who had fallen around 10 to 15 metres and broken his arm somewhere on the mountain between Scafell and Scafell Pike. As the team assembled, more information came in which indicated that he had actually fallen off Broad Stand, Read more…
Callout from Ambulance Control for male who had fallen into the river at Boot Eskdale. The male had sustained a bang to the head and had been unconscious. A number of agencies were called out to this potential swift water incident. A Wasdale MRT member from Eskdale attended directly and Read more…
Whilst the team were attending incident 47, a second call came through from the police to attend a male walker in his 50s who had fallen on the path in Little Narrow Cove, Upper Eskdale and received a fractured / dislocated shoulder. The man was treated on scene for a Read more…
Call to rescue a 17yr old girl who had become severely dehydrated on her return from the summit of Scafell Pike. The girl was in a larger school party completing the 3 Peaks Challenge. They had already climbed Ben Nevis. Rather than dehydration, the team doctors established that there were Read more…
Call to a man with a suspected broken ankle on the Lingmell path up to Brown Tongue. 16 team members attended. He was treated on the hill and carried down by stretcher to the green at Wasdale Head where he was taken to hospital by friends. Incident closed at 5.00 Read more…
Request to attend a fallen climber at Sandwith Lighthouse area of the cliffs. Coastguard were also called out along with the RNLI. Around 15 team members attended the incident. A climber in his early late 40s was descending the climbers path along with a group of fellow climbers (including a Read more…
62 yr old male tumble-fell 10 metres on the scramble section of the path on the south end of Yewbarrow. He sustained a nasty cut to the head and numerous lacerations and fortunately avoided more serious injury. Stretchered off the hill.
Male reported with breathing difficulties 10 mins walk south of St Bees lighthouse across fields. MRT required to assist ambulance service. Wasdale MRT doctor arrived on scene at the same time as air ambulance and the team was stood down.
Ambulance service requested assistance to transport a lady with a broken ankle from fields near Clint’s quarry. Land rover used to transport casualty across field to waiting ambulance.
Male walker in his 40s with painful knees was reported at Styhead. Since the party had come up from Seathwaite in Borrowdale this was passed to Keswick but two Wasdale MRT assisted since casualty site was just into the Wasdale area near Skew Gill.
The team was paged by the police to respond to a male walker on the summit of Pillar who was reported to have collapsed and was unconscious. A suspected heart attack requires urgent attention and evacuation so a helicopter was requested through the police. RAF Boulmer attended and although, by Read more…