- Incident
- 129 in 2021
- Type
- Alert — Overdue
- Location
- Eskdale
- Weather
- Clear, Cold, Gales, Storms
- Tagged
- Overdue
A call was received by the police about a group of 10 who had reportedly gone up Scafell or Scafell Pike and not been heard of after 13.00 hours. The original larger group had got split up the evening before, some ending up at Ambleside MRT base because of the adverse weather, and they had become concerned about their friends. The Team Leader established that the group of 10 were safe at Eskdale YHA. Because of the storm, there was no electricity or wi-fi and the groups were unable to contact each other.
Incident started at 18:06 and ended at 18:57 making 0.9 hrs in total. There were 2 Wasdale team members involved. Total rescuer hours: 1.8
