Incidents

Details of Incidents Attended by WMRT

2003 Rescue 19

The team leader was called to attend to an alarm raised for overdue walkers. The team were put on standby while more information was gathered. Two team members investigated at Wasdale. The incident was stood down at 2018 hrs. (Note – team policy is to record those incidents where the Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 18

The team leader was called to rescue a male walker in his late sixties who had collapsed near the summit of Kirk Fell. Around 20 team members were involved in the subsequent rescue and due to the potential seriousness of the incident (suspect heart failure), an RAF helicopter was requested. Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 17

Workington police paged the team to attend an incident at Wasdale Head. A male and female walker had become cragfast the previous day and spent the night on the fell. In the morning the man had scrambled out of the Ghyll to raise the ‘999’ alarm through another walker he Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 14

A father and son were both injured whilst ascending Blacksail. The father in his 60’s sustained a dislocated shoulder whilst the son (early 20s) collapsed from shock and sustained a gash to the head and was reported to be in a confused state. The alarm was raised at the Wasdale Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 13

The Wasdale team was called by the police to respond to a male walker with serious muscle spasms in his leg. His location was the summit of Scafell Pike. Around 18 team members were involved in carrying him back down to Brackenclose, Wasdale Head. The team returned to the road Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 12

The Wasdale team was called by the police to rescue a lady with a suspected broken ankle on the Brown Tongue path descending from Scafell Pike. Her husband has raised the alarm on his mobile phone. 20 team members were involved, carrying her down on the stretcher after administering casualty Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 09

The team leader received a request from Langdale Ambleside MRT to open Mill Forge for a radio relay. Single 37yr old male missing on walk over Crinkle Crags and Bow Fell. Langdale were searching north side and to the summits of those fells and putting search dogs into Green Hole Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 08

The police called the team leader to investigate the where-abouts of two male climbers who had become long overdue. The informant was waiting for the two climbers in Gosforth car park. They had set out that morning to winter climb on either Great End or Pikes Crag (Scafell Pike). They Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 07

When the team were setting off from Brotherilkeld cattle grid (previous incident), they were approached by a male and female in some distress and totally lost. They had left their car at the Old Dungeon Gyll, Langdale earlier that morning and set off to walk the high fells. They had Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 06

The team were asked to respond to a two vehicle ‘accident’ on Hardknott Pass. The police were unable to get to the vehicles due to ice and snow. The team vehicles were parked at the bottom of the pass and team members walked up. The two vehicles were in fact Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 05

Keswick MRT called in Wasdale MRT to assist in a search for two missing walkers. The male and female walker had failed to turn up at their hotel and their car was still parked at Seathwaite. A number of SARDA search dogs and handlers were mobilised along with the Keswick Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 04

Two Wasdale team members on Great End were asked to lend a hand to Keswick MRT who were responding to a ‘999’ call for an elderly man with a broken ankle at Styhead stretcher box. They administered casualty care until the Keswick team arrived and stretchered the gentleman back down Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago

2003 Rescue 03

Following a call from the Wasdale Head Hotel, the base was manned whilst two team members investigated shouts and flashing lights on Lingmel Nose. They found four young men making their way slowly down the fellside in the dark. They had been trying to attract the attention of their friends Read more…
By Jon Lynch, ago