Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out by Cumbria Police at 15.00hrs Saturday 16th October to a woman who had slipped whilst descending towards Seldom Seen from Sheffield Pike. 9 team members, who were already at base for a prior engagement, attended in two vehicles and found the casualty around 100 metres from the track.

Team medics assessed the woman who had a suspected fractured wrist, which was placed in a splint and pain relief given. Due to the nature of the injury the woman was able to walk to the team Landrover where she was conveyed to the rescue base at Patterdale from where she made her way to hospital with her colleague for treatment.

The rescue took less than an hour to complete.

On Wednesday 13/10/21 at around 13:30 hrs the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out with regard to a man who had fallen 10 meters into Aira Force Gorge. Fire, Helimed and an NWAS land ambulance also responded. The man had tried to climb out and, unfortunately, fallen back into the gorge a second time.

When the team arrived at the scene the man had been in the water for about 1 hour and was extremely cold. The team quickly lowered a team member down to the casualty to stabilise and assess him. A rope system was rigged and the casualty was raised onto dry land. The very cold casualty was then assessed by medics at the scene for hypothermia and suspected leg and arm fractures.

The casualty was stabilised and then transported in a team vehicle to a land ambulance in a nearby car park. The rescue lasted for 2 hours and involved 13 team members. The team would like to thank the Cumbria Fire and Rescue service, NWAS and the Great North Air Ambulance for some great team work to quickly resolve the incident.

At 14:00hrs Friday 24 September, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted to a man who had slipped and injured his knee while descending from Barton Fell above Ullswater. The team was able to access the location from Roehead and travel towards Barton Fell using the 4×4 landrovers.

Once on scene the man’s injuries were assessed with first aid administered before being transferred back to Roehead to the waiting ambulance. On arrival back at Pooley Bridge the grateful companions kindly bought refreshments and wished us a “rescue free” weekend.

The Team’s 2021 incident attendance register records this callout as “Man fell from a stile – Duddon and Furness MRT incident”. No further public press-release wording survives in the archive.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Wednesday morning 08/09/21 by the North West Ambulance Service regarding a woman who had fallen about 50 foot in the water. The Great North Air Ambulance and land ambulance had been called out at the same time and the team met up with the other medical teams at the scene.

The walker had been pulled off a steep cliff by her dog and had landed in the shallow water below. She had sustained some serious injuries to her lower leg and was in a great deal of pain. The casualty was treated at the scene by the medics and she was then transferred onto a stretcher and evacuated by the Patterdale team to the helimed which had landed in a field some distance away.

She was then flown to the RVI in Newcastle. The team would like to thank the NWAS and GNAAS crews for some great team work which resulted in a quick and efficient rescue. The rescue involved 14 Patterdale team members and lasted for about 2 hours.