Following receipt of a 999 call from a Penrith MRT Member and three colleagues, reporting a young male with an injured ankle on St Sunday Crag, Cumbria Police tasked the Team to assist. The Team made the steep ascent from the Grisedale Valley to provide pain relief and stabilise the ankle before stretchering the casualty from the fell.

Following a report that a female walker had fallen off a cliff and sustained back / shoulder injuries, NWAS called for the Team’s assistance. The couple had been walking a route over Sheffield Pike and Heron Pike and lost the path so found themselves on steep, rocky terrain.

The casualty reported that her foot had given way and that she had fallen 10-15 metres and sustained a nasty laceration to her shoulder. She was given pain relief, and the injury was treated at the scene. The casualty was lowered on a stretcher to the road where she was transferred to a land ambulance.

NWAS requested the Team’s help in attending a female who had slipped. She was in a lot of pain and had a suspected ankle fracture. The injury was treated and stabilised with a lower leg splint. The casualty was then transferred by stretcher to a Team Land Rover, thence to the road where she was handed over to a land ambulance for onward travel to hospital.

NWAS reported an incident involving a 78 year old female who had taken a stumbling fall above Silver Point, thereby sustaining an arm injury and facial lacerations. A Team Doctor assessed the casualty’s injuries before treating her and splinting her arm.

She was then stretchered from scene before both she and her companion were transported back to Glenridding in the Team’s Land Rovers. Once cleaned up, the couple made their own way to Penrith Community Hospital’s minor injuries unit for further treatment.