Incidents initiated by the failure of a party to turn up or report in by their expected time.
The team were paged by the police regarding some missing persons on Scafell Pike. The Team leader investigated the call. The missing persons turned up safe and well at 8:50 hrs and the incident was closed with no requirement for the team to be mobilised.
Search for a two 30 yr old missing walkers on Scafell Pike. Whilst the team were assessing whether to go out or not the missing persons turned up safe and well. Torrential rain hit Cumbria that evening. Incident closed at 10.31 p.m. with no further action necessary.
Call came in from the police regarding a missing 80yr old lady walker along with her daughter in her late 50s and three dogs. They had set off from Hollins Campsite at 7:30 hrs that morning to climb Scafell or Scafell Pike and had not returned. 19 Wasdale team members Read more…
Police call regarding two climbers long overdue from Scafell Crag. Last seen around 2 pm, high on the crag. Small group of Wasdale MRT assembled to go and investigate, with crag gear and back-up casualty care equipment and base also being manned. Incident stood down again at 11.00 p.m. when Read more…
71yr old male reported missing on a walk from Wasdale Head. Man located as Black Sail Youth Hostel in Ennerdale before any Wasdale MRT action required.
Report from the Police of 2 members of a walking party who had failed to rendezvous at Beck Head. They were last seen at Black Sail Pass and were intending to walk around the back of Kirk Fell to meet the rest of their party who were walking over Kirk Read more…
Request from Police to respond to a call regarding two members of a party reported overdue on Kirk Fell. Their companions had walked their intended route without finding them. No immediate action was taken by the team and the missing persons eventually phoned to say that they were safe and Read more…
Paged by Police following a report of overdue walkers. While the Deputy Team leader was investigating the incident the missing persons turned up safe and well within 30 minutes. Incident closed.
The team were paged following a report of a group of overdue walkers (adults and children) who had set off from Brotherikeld to climb Scafell via Foxes tarn. The team waited until later that evening when the group called to say they were down safe and well. Incident closed around Read more…
Cumbria Police paged the team following a ‘999’ call regarding an overdue walker. The Deputy team leader investigated and waited to see if the person would turn up. The overdue walker turned up safe and well at 9.13 p.m. and the incident was closed with no further action necessary.
A call came into the team whilst on rescue 20. A party of walkers were long overdue from their walk from Bowfell, Scafell Pike to the Woolpack Hotel in Eskdale. The Team leader went to the hotel and decided to wait until 10.00 p.m. before taking further action. The missing Read more…
The police paged the team following a ‘999’ call for missing walkers. The Team leader decided to wait and see if they turned up. Nothing further was heard. Incident closed later that night. No action necessary.
Wasdale MRT were paged by the police to respond to a ‘999’ call from a concerned informant over a group of overdue walkers. Whilst the Deputy team leader was gathering information the overdue walkers turned up safe and well. Incident stood down at 7.17 p.m. – only one team member Read more…
Wasdale MRT were asked by Langdale MRT to help search for a long overdue missing 60 year old male walker who had been walking in the Bowfell and Crinkle crags area. 15 Wasdale Team members and a SARDA dog handler searched the upper Eskdale areas and Duddon & Furness MRT Read more…
Paged by the Police regarding two people reported long overdue form a walk to Scafell and Scafell Pike. The informant ran a guest house in Keswick and knew little about the two guests, other than that they were early 40’s, from Nottingham and that their intended route involved doing Scafell Read more…
Pager message from Police regarding overdue walkers. Whilst the team leader was establishing more details about the incident the missing persons turned up safe and well. Incident closed at around 10.45 p.m. Logged here as an alert with no team members going onto the fell
Call from Cumbria police regarding a Group of three walkers who failed to turn up at the Youth Hostel in Ennerdale after walking the previous day on Great Gable. They had decided to camp in Wasdale but had failed to tell anyone. The incident was stood down at 09:37 hrs Read more…
Call from Cumbria police regarding a group of 3 Peakers in trouble. The informant was at the campsite telephone box. Two groups had set off to complete Scafell Pike as a Three Peaks Challenge. Although the weather conditions were appalling with very heavy rain the groups had set off. The Read more…
Call from Cumbria police regarding a 67 yr old male reported long overdue on a walk up Great Gable. He was reported to have gone with little or no fell going equipment, map, compass, clothing, food, so was sounding like someone the team leader considered was “at risk”. However, as Read more…
Two groups of 4 and 5 people, both part of the same party doing the Three Peaks Challenge, were reported overdue between the summit of Scafell Pike and Langdale. The missing groups had called in on their mobile to say they were on the summit at 6.30pm that but failed Read more…