Incidents responding to a casualty who is injured or suffering from a medical condition.
Call out initiated via land line for a change via the police ‘999’ for a rescue at Brotherikeld, Eskdale. Male walker collapsed in the Ling Cove Bridge area of Eskdale. Due to the initial information and the time to hospital / location the decision was made to request the assistance Read more
Police paged the team with a call for help from a Dutch family. The female walker in her mid fifties was descending from a walk near Harter Fell to Penny Hill farm when she slipped on the path fracturing her left ankle and dislocating a finger in her hand. Her Read more
Police paged the team to respond to a mobile phone ‘999’ from an informant on the corridor route. A 44 year old male had fallen over a boulder on the summit of Scafell Pike and had been reported as having injuries to his face and a possible limb injury. The Read more
Call from Workington Police reporting a 44 yr old male with a “serious knee injury” on Scafell Pike. The informant turned out to be marshalling a large group of 3 Peakers at the NT car park, end of the lake. He didn’t know the exact location of the casualty or Read more
Call initiated via mobile phone to the police, female with an ankle injury in the Hollow Stone area. Casualty was located approximately 100m below the Woolworth Boulder on the side of the path and after initial treatment stretchered down to Bracken Close. She was taken by ambulance to the West Read more
The team were called directly to rescue a local lady in her early 60’s with a broken leg. At first the locations was taken to be Overbeck Buttress on Yewbarrow but subsequently found to be Netherbeck, opposite Overbeck Buttress on the Middle Fell side of the river. The response was Read more
The team were called to rescue a family who were in trouble following their descent from Scafell Pike to Seathwaite. The father who was in his early 50’s and a diabetic had collapsed from his medical condition compounded by severe hypothermia. He was in a confused state and barely conscious. Read more
Following a ‘999’ call to the police the team were called out to rescue a 16 year old student in a party of seven who had collapsed with stomach pains and was feeling unwell and could not walk. The group had traveled up to the Lake District at the weekend Read more
The team were paged by Whitehaven police to respond to a ‘999’ call for a 17 year old female walker who had been reported as collapsed near Lingmel Col. The informant had been one of her walking male friends who had run down to the hotel at Wasdale Head to Read more
The team were paged by Workington police to respond to a ‘999’ call for a 30 year old female walker who had stumbled and fractured her ankle on the path between Brown Tongue and Lingmel Col. She was with her boyfriend who had raised the alarm. The couple were from Read more
The team was called out by Ambulance Control following a ‘999’ on a mobile. A group of four walkers, two female and two male in their early forties, one suffering from a medical condition had set off from Borrowdale earlier that day to climb Great Gable. They had lost the Read more
The team were called to respond to a call involving a 60 year old man who had collapsed with chest pains at Hardknott Fort, Eskdale. The man was a local farmer. When the team arrived on scene there was already an ambulance in attendance and an Air Ambulance, North West Read more
A walker raised the alarm at Wasdale Head reporting that a 60 year old male walker had collapsed on Gavel Neese, Great Gable with hypothermia. He had been found by a group of walkers near the bottom of the wall on Gavel Knees, down by the side of Gable Beck. Read more
The team were paged by Workington Police regarding a lady in her 50’s with a suspected broken ankle. Her location was given as high up next to the second gill, Hardknott Fell on the Eskdale side. When more details were known, the lady was not a walker but from one Read more
The team were called to assist a lady in her early 20’s who had slipped on Gavel Neese on the way up Great Gable, approximately 200 meters above the intake wall on the path to Beck Head. The young lady had a previous back injury and during the fall had Read more
The police called the team out to a male walker who was reported to be injured on Scafell. The accident was reported by passing walkers who had heard the shouts for help and whistles. He along with another three or four walkers were descending or ascending west wall traverse by Read more
The police called the team out to attend to a lady in her 50’s with a broken ankle on the St. Bees Head path. The husband and wife from Wigan were up in the Lake District for the weekend. They were walking along the path between St. Bees Head and Read more
Call from the Police to rescue a 41 yr old male three peaker. He along with his colleagues had set off from Seathwaite to climb Scafell Pike. On their return from the summit, on the Corridor route, he had a fit. 10 members of the Wasdale team supported by the Read more
Call from the Wasdale Head Hotel. A group of local walkers were completing the Mosedale horseshoe and whilst descending Dore Head Scree, one of the walkers felt feint, passed out and fell approximately 15 feet (tumble fall). The weather conditions were very warm and due a medical condition he had Read more
Call from Workington Police to rescue a 21 yr old male from the Kendal area who had fallen approximately 60 foot down Yew Crag, Hard Knott fell in Eskdale. He had been camping with his friends just north of the Roman Fort on Hardknott Pass. His fall was arrested by Read more