Piers Gill, Scafell Pike – Mon 6th Sep 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about 2 walkers who were lost on Scafell Pike. The Team Leader was able to talk them off the hill without calling the team out.
Hollowstones, Scafell Pike – Mon 6th Sep 2021
We were alerted by North West Ambulance Service about a walker who had taken a 10ft fall and had significant bleeding from a head injury. In view of this, air support was requested and Helimed 58 attended. However, the casualty site was in cloud so the aircraft could not land Read more…
Brown Tongue, Scafell Pike – Sat 28th Aug 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about a walker who had had a fit on the descent from Scafell Pike. On arrival on scene, team members administered first aid and stretchered him off the hill to a waiting ambulance. He was then taken to hospital.
Great Gable – Sun 25th Jul 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria Police about 3 walkers who were stuck on bad ground on their descent from Great Gable. “Phonefind” put their location in or near Great Hell Gate but erring on the side of caution, extra resources were called for in case it turned out to be Read more…
Scafell Pike – Tue 15th Jun 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria police about 2 walkers who had reported themselves lost, possibly on the descent from Scafell Pike but this was not certain from the information they had given to the police. It was not possible to speak to them either by phone or text and the Read more…
Horn Crag, Upper Eskdale – Mon 14th Jun 2021
A call came in from the police about a gentleman lost when descending Scafell Pike. Using phone find the location came back as just below Horn crag, Eskdale. The team leader made contact with the person and talked him off the fell in the direction of Burnmore Tarn. On his Read more…
Overbeck, Wasdale – Wed 19th May 2021
The team were called out to a male who was reported by another walker to be sitting on the path on the slopes of Yewbarrow. It was reported the gentleman could not walk as he was exhausted and both ankles were sore. 16 Wasdale team members were deployed along with Read more…
Wastwater Screes – Wed 5th May 2021
The team leader was alerted by Cumbria police of a lady with a reported broken leg/ankle on the lakeside screes footpath by Wastwater. A spotter was sent to the roadside to try and pin point the location with binoculars and the team boat was launched to find the casualty. Once Read more…
Corridor Route, Scafell Pike – Sun 25th Apr 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria police to say 2 walkers had become lost on their descent from Scafell Pike and light was fading. Phonefind put them at the Corridor Route/Greta Gill junction, a group of team members who had originally been on their way to the previous incident on Great Read more…
Napes, Great Gable – Sun 25th Apr 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria police to say 2 walkers had become stuck on their descent from Great Gable. Because of the location, a full team callout was initiated as roped access and egress may have been necessary. While the team were en route, a message was received to say Read more…
Kirkfell – Sat 24th Apr 2021
We were alerted by Cumbria police following reports of a dog barking and whining for some time. We decided to investigate because, as well as a dog possibly in distress, there may have been someone injured nearby. A few team members attended and met a member of the public who Read more…
Fell End, Eskdale – Thu 15th Apr 2021
Cumbria Police alerted the Team Leader of a gentleman with a suspected broken ankle on steep ground above the Eskdale Outward Bound centre. The team was quickly dispatched to the scene where the patient was given pain relief, splinted and carried down by stretcher to an ambulance. We would like Read more…
Cross Walls, Wastwater – Sat 3rd Apr 2021
The team leader was alerted by North West Ambulance Service that a lady had taken a fall and sustained a suspected broken leg by Wastwater lake The team was quickly dispatched to assist the ambulance crew to carry the lady up a short piece of tricky land, then into the Read more…
Eskdale – Sat 10th Oct 2020
The team were called about a walker who had failed to rendezvous with his friend at a car park in Eskdale, having split up an hour earlier on the way down from Scafell. The friend turned up before any action was taken.
Cross Walls, Wastwater – Sat 10th Oct 2020
A team member happened to be nearby when a male sustained an ankle injury. At that time an ambulance had been requested. He and another team member provided warmth, shelter and splinted the ankle. With help he was able to get into the family car to be taken to hospital Read more…
Hollowstones, Scafell Pike – Tue 29th Sep 2020
A call was received via Cumbria Police from a party descending Scafell Pike to Wasdale. A lady had turned her ankle near the summit. She had managed to get as far as Hollow Stones but the pain had become too much for her to continue. As numbers of WMRT responding Read more…
Greathall Gill, Wasdale – Wed 23rd Sep 2020
After spending the day walking across the tops of the Wasdale Screes, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg a couple made a very simple navigational error and followed what looked like a marked path into what we call Greathall Gill. We are all human and thus prone to error, so after Read more…
Lingmell Nose – Sun 20th Sep 2020
The second incident of a very difficult day for the team. Whilst descending off the summit of Scafell Pike a couple became disorientated in the dark and took a wrong path. After alerting the Police via 999, the Team Leader was able to contact the couple by mobile phone and Read more…
Scafell Pike – Sun 20th Sep 2020
Sometimes no matter how many team members we put on our hills or how much quicker our runners ascend to our summits or how much additional kit we carry up on our shoulders, every now and then it is just not enough and another life passes. Being part of a Read more…
, – Mon 14th Sep 2020
The team were called by a friend of 4 males who had set off to walk up Scafell Pike at 11.30am and not returned. None of the 4 phonefinds sent were successful and it was not possible to speak to the informant by phone. A team member tried to find Read more…