- Incident
- 54 in 2022
- Type
- Full Callout — Injured & Medical
- Location
- Kirkfell
- Weather
- Cloudy Summits, Mild
- Other Agencies
- Coastguard, Cockermouth MRT
- Diagnosis
- Multiple Injuries
- Tagged
- Tumble Fall
We were called last Friday evening to assist our friends at Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team to someone who had taken a nasty tumble fall on Kirk Fell. Fortunately by the time we arrived the cloud had lifted enough for Maritime and Coastguard Agency Rescue 199 helicopter to access the scene and winch the casualty off, so we were not needed to help with what would have been a difficult stretcher carry off the mountain. All that remained for us to do was escort the last member of the party back to Wasdale Head, along with two extra rucksacks, which had not been airlifted earlier with their owners!
Incident started at 18:54 and ended at 23:15 making 4.4 hrs in total. There were 20 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY 193 112. Total rescuer hours: 88
