Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 12.37hrs on Sunday 11th July to a female in her early sixties who had slipped whilst descending from Beda Fell Knott down to Dale Head Farm in Martindale. Due to there being no mobile phone coverage in the area the lady’s companions had raised the alarm by walking down to the farm .

Three vehicles were despatched and travelled to the head of Martindale where team members proceeded on foot to the casualty site. After treatment at the scene the casualty was put in a leg splint and conveyed off the fell in a stretcher to a team Land Rover. The group were driven back to Patterdale Mountain Rescue Base from where they then made their own way to hospital for further treatment.

The rescue lasted a total of 3 hours and involved 17 team members.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted shortly after 14:00 on 21/06/2021 to respond to a 60 year old woman who had tripped whilst walking close to the summit of St Sunday Crag. She had suffered a laceration to her forehead and a suspected fracture of her left wrist.

The party with the woman improvised a sling and gave her paracetamol and ibuprofen before starting the decent towards Patterdale. Four team members in two Team vehicles drove up the Grisedale Valley and then walked up to meet the casualty and her party. After a brief assessment they returned to the vehicles and brought the woman down to the Team’s Rescue Centre.

She was later driven to Cumbria Infirmary Carlise by her husband. The rescue lasted 3 hours and involved 6 team members.