The Team’s 2022 incident attendance register records this callout as “Walker fallen Helvellyn”. No further public press-release wording survives in the archive.

At about 14:00 on 16/02/2022 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was requested by the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to assist a 74 year old woman from Essex who has slipped whilst walking with her family near Aira Force. Two team vehicles were mobilised to rendezvous with team members at Park Brow car park.

They then proceeded on foot to the incident location which was close to the top of the falls. A team doctor and paramedic assessed the woman who had suffered a significant injury to her left knee. She was packaged into a stretcher and carried back to the car park before being transferred to an NWAS ambulance for transport to Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle.

The incident lasted 1.5 hours and involved 17 team members.

On Saturday 29th January Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called to a report of a woman who had been walking near Howtown at Scalehow wood when she had received an ankle injury by a falling tree and was unable to continue on her walk. As the team were still up in the Cairngorms on winter training the job was passed to RAF Leeming Mountain Rescue Team who were covering our area for the duration we were out of the area.

They attended the scene and carried out an assessment before evacuating the casualty by stretcher off the hill. She was then conveyed to hospital by her colleagues in their own car for further treatment. Patterdale team would like to express their thanks to RAF Leeming for their assistance on this rescue and for their cover throughout the four days whilst we were away in Scotland.