All other incidents
The informant to Cumbria Police reported hearing whistles in the Hardknott Pass area. The Team Leader investigated but found insufficient information to justify a team deployment. The situation was monitored and closed without further action with agreement from the police. A false alarm with good intent.
The team was tasked by Cumbria Police to support them for a search on Scafell Pike. The team was deployed but after some time ascending in very warm conditions the walker was believed to have descended via a different route to Wasdale Head. As such, all parties were stood down Read more…
We were called on Friday evening about two walkers who were concerned for their safety after getting wet and cold. They were high up near Great End. The Team Leader made contact and established that they were intending to camp, and were well prepared to recover their situation. After discussing Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police; two dogs had become exhausted and were ‘staying put’ after a long day out ascending Scafell Pike the long way around from Wrynose Pass. The call had initially gone to Penrith MRT in error but then re-routed quickly. The group of three walkers Read more…
A call was taken from Cumbria Police yesterday evening when a camper at the Brackenclose campsite was concerned when she noticed flashing lights on Scafell Pike. The Team Leader made some enquiries, but shortly afterwards the informant confirmed that the lights now seemed to be descending. With the additional knowledge Read more…
The team was called by Cumbria Police on Sunday about a party of four walkers who were lost in mist, having summited Scafell Pike about 20 minutes earlier. With difficult mobile phone communications, attempts to make a ‘talk off’ were unsuccessful. Another police call shortly afterwards stated that one of Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police when two walkers on Yewbarrow heard a scream from the opposite side of the lake, and they were concerned that someone was in trouble. The Team Leader contacted the walkers and also made further enquiries locally. Nothing further to indicate a problem emerged, Read more…
The team was notified by Cumbria Police when a caller reported that a head torch had not moved for some time on the Screes. They were concerned for the person’s safety. The Team Leader asked a team member who lived in the valley to investigate. Happily by the time they Read more…
Three separate calls were made to Cumbria Police yesterday after hearing shouts in the White Napes area of Great Gable. However, after assessing all of the information and consulting with the informants and Cumbria Police it was decided that there was insufficient evidence of an ongoing need for MR assistance. Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police to assist with helping a stranded motorist off Birker Fell and back to safe ground after a road traffic accident. A limited callout was made to take a team 4×4 vehicle to the scene and assist, however a team member in the valley Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police on Christmas Eve. A very broken mobile call was passed through with very vague details but included the words ‘Scafell’, ‘foggy’ and ‘van’. The mobile number was unconfirmed. With very little to go on, the Team Leader asked a team member to check Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police from a person at a campsite in Eskdale. A member of their family had not been heard from for some time after their car had come off the road on Hardknott Pass at 10pm the previous evening. The driver was an experienced walker Read more…
The team was called by Cumbria Police about two walkers who called for MRT help as the light was fading. It proved difficult for reliable communications to be established but from the phone coordinates on a second call they had made progress from Skew Gill well past Sty Head Tarn Read more…
The team was called briefly by Cumbria Police to assist them with a search for a missing person. A family member was concerned for their safety. However, as the Team Leader was requesting the closest team members to search car parks for a vehicle, the police confirmed that they had Read more…
A call was received on Saturday morning from Cumbria Police. A walker in a party of 6 was reported to be feeling ill on Scafell Pike, and couldn’t descend. However the call dropped out before any details could be obtained, including phone numbers. With no further calls received after an Read more…
A relatively brief callout after Cumbria Police called us about a pair of walkers benighted in Eskdale without head torches. This time Phonefind gave a nice result, with a location not too far from the Wha House car park (quite often at this time of night it turns out to Read more…
A call was received from Cumbria Police when a person in a car in a lay-by at the lake became concerned about a walker and their dog on the Screes boulder fields. They had not moved for a while, and with daylight fading they were worried about their safety. The Read more…
A call was received on Tuesday evening from Cumbria Police. They were requesting support for a developing multi-agency search for a missing person. However, as team members were assembling, positive news was received that the person had been located and the team was stood down.
As the team was responding to the ankle injury in incident 127, a further call was received. A walker’s 20kg dog had damaged its paws and was struggling to descend from Scafell Pike summit. The walker was understanding of the situation and intended to move downhill as best as possible, Read more…
Keswick MRT received a call from Cumbria Police which was confirmed to be in our area and passed through quickly. A walker on the Scafell Pike summit plateau was reporting people about 1.5km away on a ridge line near Lords Rake shouting for help. An accurate bearing was also taken Read more…