Sheep Rescue – Cat Crag

The team were contacted by a local farmer to request assistance with some sheep who were crag fast on a ledge on Cat Crag by Angle Tarn. There were 8 sheep who had managed to get into the ledge and had been there at least a week in the hot weather without access to water.…

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Wolf Crag crashed paraglider

On Sunday 25/07/21 at around 13:30hrs, the team were called out to a injured paraglider who had crashed just below Wolf Crags. At the time of the call the team were at Aira Force finishing a separate mountain rescue incident. A team of 5 members in a team Landrover quickly responded and also requested an air…

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Person in the water Inn on the Lake

At around 22:30 on Friday 23/07/21, Police requested assistance from the team as they were dealing with a male with a head injury who had entered Ullswater near the Inn on the Lake in Glenridding. The deputy team leader was on scene quickly and at that point a boat on the lakes had managed to…

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Male in water at Brothers Water

At 18.53 hrs on Tuesday 20th July, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called by North West Ambulance Service to reports of a male in his thirties who had gone into Brothers Water and disappeared from the view of his friends who were on the lake shore. A Deputy Leader and two team members were at…

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Female stuck on ledge

At 14.42hrs on Wednesday 21st July the team were requested by Cumbria Police to assist a female in her early sixties who had been walking on Gowbarrow above Ullswater and had got into difficulty trying to locate the way down to the main road. On speaking to the female she was not injured but very…

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Gowbarrow Fell missing person

At around 1600 hrs Cumbria Police requested  assistance from the Patterdale team regards a concern for welfare for a female who had not returned to an agreed location after a walk. The missing person had been on a walk on Gowbarrow Fell with her husband  and decided to turn back after feeling tired, with the…

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Ankle injury Beda Fell Knott

The Team were called by Cumbria Police at 12.37hrs 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 no mobile phone coverage the ladies companions had raised the alarm by walking down to the farm .…

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Cragfast above Deepdale Hall

The Team were called at about 18:45 on Monday 5th July to assist a couple from Harrow in Middlesex who had become stuck descending the fell above Deepdale Hall.  Team members ascended to their location and walked the pair off the fell before returning them to their car.  The rescue took 2 hours and involved…

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Lost Coast to Coast walker

The team were called by Cumbria Police at around 1600hrs. A lone walker who was doing the coast to coast route got himself lost in the low cloud. Due to the wet weather he was cold and got disorientated. The team leader talked the male down over the phone, towards Hayeswater reservoir. A team Land…

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Woman with head and wrist injury

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were 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…

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Broken ankle Aira Force

The team were called out by Cumbria Police at around 1600hrs regards a report of a lady at the Aira Force falls, who has suffered a suspected broken ankle. The team located the casualty half way up the path by the side of the waterfalls. The casualty had slipped and gone over their ankle and…

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Stuck on Pinnacle Ridge

At 20.50hrs on Wednesday 9th June 2021 a male in his mid twenties rang Cumbria Police requesting assistance as he was stuck on Pinnacle Ridge in the Grisedale Valley and unable to go any further.  Due to the nature of the incident and weather conditions, a full team call out was requested.  The duty leader…

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