25/02/2023 Reports were received from a local farmer of a sheep cragfast on Eagle Crag in Grisedale.  5 team members assembled on Saturday morning, drove up the te valley and walked into the crag.  After locating the swaledale sheep a rope system was set up and two team members abseiled down to the animal.  It…

On Tuesday 14/03/22, the team received a call out regards a lone walker and her dog. The walker had set off from Glenridding to walk to Grisedale Tarn with a plan to return via St Sunday Crag. Whilst ascending St Sunday the weather drew in and started to snow heavily. The walker got disorientated and…

At 16:14 on Tuesday 21st March 2023 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were requested by the North West Ambulance Service to assist a 73 year old woman who had slipped and injured her right ankle whilst descending from Little Mell Fell. 18 team members including responded to there callout and rendezvoused at the The Hause before…

At 18.49hrs  on Saturday 11th March the Duty Leader was contacted by Cumbria Police to a group of 9 males form the Manchester area who were somewhere on Striding Edge/Helvellyn area needing assistance to get back down to their vehicles.Contact was made with the group and after a short while a Sarloc text was intercepted…

On Tuesday 21/02/23 Patterdale MRT responded to a request from Wasdale Mountain Rescue to assist in a search for a missing person. Wasdale team were coordinating an extensive search after being out overnight to locate a missing walker. At first light a team of 4 Patterdale Team members were tasked with searching the footpaths between…

Volunteers of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team had recently returned from their annual winter mountaineering weekend when they were called out by Cumbria Police, to reports of a lady who had slipped and injured her ankle while ascending the path up towards Red Tarn, Helvellyn. When the team arrived on scene, a bivi shelter was erected…

On Sunday 22/01/2023 at around 1600hrs the team responded to a call out at Angle Tarn. The information was that a female walker had injured her ankle and was unable to continue. The casualty had been on a walk with her sister when she had slipped on ice and gone over on her ankle. Fortunately…

On Sunday 18th December Cumbria Police requested assistance from  Patterdale Mountain Rescue to a minibus which had become stuck on KIrkstone Pass in the snowy conditions.  The team mobilised their Land rovers to the area where Team Members found a minibus full of passengers stranded after their vehicle had become stuck in the snow and…

On Sunday 21/08/22 at around 16:45 hrs. The team received a report via Cumbria Police that shouts for help had been heard in the Grisedale Valley. The person who had called the police had been flying a drone and seen some people on the fell and they believed they were shouting for help. The team…

On Tuesday 30/08/22 at around 21:30 Cumbria Police alerted the team regards a 999 call they had received from a couple of walker on their way down from Helvellyn. The walkers had stated they were on their way down and not lost nor injured, but that they were cold. The team leader unsuccessfully tried to…

On Sunday 14/08/22 at around 1830hrs the team were called regards a walker who was suffering from heat exhaustion and unable to walk. The team located the female walker on the Mires Beck path coming down from Birkhouse Moor. The casualty and her friends had walked Helvellyn via the edges and as they were coming…

On Saturday 15/10/22 at around 1300hrs the team were called regards a walker who had slipped and injured her ankle. She was with her partner on Heron Pike. Around the same time the team received a second call out about a walker who had fallen from Striding edge. The team leader made contact with Penrith…