Incidents responding to a casualty who is injured or suffering from a medical condition.
Call to rescue a man who slipped on Brown Tongue path by Lingmel Gyll crossing. Stretchered off to car and driven to West Cumberland Hospital
Call from Workington Police. 19 yr old man from Halifax had slipped on the path, descending Brown Tongue and had sustained an ankle injury that prevented him from being able to continue. There were only around 14 members in total but the casualty was just below the Lingmel Gyll stream Read more…
Call from Workington Police at 1700 hrs regarding a report of two "elderly gentlemen" who were unlikely to be able to walk down without mountain rescue assistance. The Police didn’t have an accurate description of the location but knew it was somewhere in the vicinity of the Burnmoor Tarn path, Read more…
Call from Police to rescue 2 injured walkers from upper Eskdale. The group of 4 had started their walk the previous day. Their plan was to climb Scafell Pike via the corridor route. On reaching Styhead stretcher box they carried straight on towards Esk Hause and we believe ascended Great Read more…
Call from Workington Police to assist 3 exhausted walkers on Lingmel. This rescue started small but ended as a major stretcher lower over and down extremely difficult terrain. The group of 12 had found themselves on the wrong side of Piers Gyll, high on the fell below Lingmel craggs. One Read more…
Call from the Police to attend a walker with a broken ankle by Lingmel Ghyll. The retired gentleman had slipped in Lord’s rake and twisted his ankle but managed to walk down assisted by a fellow walker. The advance team met him at the bottom of Brown Tongue and assisted Read more…
Call from the Police to attend a lady with a broken ankle on the fell above the Outward Bound at Eskdale – the reservoir footpath off Giggle Alley. The lady was given first aid on the fell and carried back down to the Outward Bound school to await the ambulance. Read more…
Call for assistance from a group of walkers ascending Scafell Pike. Gentleman with an injured leg. Team were called out to assist and the advance attended. The gentleman was helped back onto the path by members of his group and safely made their own way back down without further assistance Read more…
Call from Cumbria Police to respond to a male injured in Stanley Gill with a badly gashed arm. He had been with a group pushing mountain bikes when the side of the path gave way and he fell about 3 metres down the bank onto the rocks at the side Read more…
Call from Cumbria Police to rescue a walker with a broken ankle at Mickledore, just below the Broad stand scramble on Scafell. Details still to add. Incident closed at around 0200 hrs the following morning (yes, similar finishing time to the previous nights rescue and work at 0800 hrs).
Call from Cumbria Police to help rescue a fallen climber on Scafell Crags (Moss Gill) – fatality. more details will be added shortly. Incident closed around 0200 hrs. the following morning.
Cumbria Police control room sent out a request for assistance to an incident in Eskdale. An elderly lady had fallen 3 metres into the stream bed at Stanley Ghyl, Eskdale and sustained an injury to her head. The team administered first aid and carried the lady down by stretcher. She Read more…
Call from Workington Police shortly before 3.30pm on Sunday afternoon, regarding a report of a climber who had fallen on Lord’s Rake. They did not have details of the injuries but could me a mobile telephone number for the informant.The Team Leader rang the informant but had to leave a Read more…
Female reported to have fallen amongst large rocks. Minor head injuries. Coast Guard and RNLI involved. Evacuated from the bottom of the cliffs by inshore rescue boat. Team brought her down from the cliff and transferred her to the boat. Coast Guard were compromised by foot and mouth as they Read more…
The team leader was called just before mid-day by Whitehaven Police. They had received a 999 call from someone with a mobile phone, who reported hearing shouts for help and knew that someone else required Mountain Rescue assistance. They knew the location was at Mickledore ridge, between Scafell and Scafell Read more…
Call from Whitehaven Police regarding a 57 yr. old man, reported to have chest pains and to be confused. He had been found in the Green Hole area (upper Esk) by a group of walkers. They had taken four hours to get him off the hill and back to the Read more…
Saturday 25th November. The second was a walker with "cramp" in his legs at Hollowstones, Scafell Pike in the afternoon of Saturday 2nd December 2000. He managed to walk off the fell aided by the team although the alert was for severe cramp and inability to move.
Call from Whitehaven Police regarding a 20 yr. old male walker who had fallen over amongst boulders, badly lacerating his face. The call had come from another member of the five strong Bradford University group, who had raised the alarm by mobile phone. The casualty was a few hundred feet Read more…
At about 21.15 hrs – call from Whitehaven Police. The full Wasdale Team was immediately called out followed by support from the Millom Fell and Search Team and SARDA Search Dogs. The intention being to deal with the first incident before diverting attention to the second problem. About 18 Wasdale Read more…
Call via Whitehaven Police regarding a man with a mobile phone. He had rung 999 to report that his partner was suffering from exhaustion. When the team leader rang him, he found that his partner was not seriously exhausted and that they were in fact near Esk Hawse. We finished Read more…