On Saturday 22nd of February Patterdale Team members were tasked as part of the LDSMRA Drone Team to assist County Durham Police and Teasdale Mountain Rescue Team in the search for a missing 23yr old ultra runner who had been reported missing since the previous Tuesday. Saturday provided a brief weather window for the use…

On Tuesday 25th of February the Team were requested to begin investigating an overdue walker after her partner called the police and expressed concern for her welfare. As the Team Leader was assessing the situation the woman regained cellular phone signal and was able to contacted her partner. The team were stood down and no…

On Friday 21st February at 13.18hrs the Duty leader was contacted by Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue regarding a Male who had become cold, wet and exhausted whilst walking in bad weather. As the Casualty was in Patterdale’s area it was passed over to us to deal with. The Team were called out after initial contact was…

At 18:10 on Saturday 8th February Cumbria Police contacted the Team with a report of four 19 year old men who were lost in the vicinity of Hart Crag. Mobile phone communication was established and a “phone finder app” was used to locate the party who were in Link Cove to the North of Hart…

At 16:13 on Saturday 8th February Cumbria Police alerted Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team to a party of 5, all in their early twenties, reporting themselves lost on Helvellyn.  The details of the 999 call had been passed to Cumbria Police by Lancashire Constabulary after it had been routed there. After several attempts, mobile phone contact…

On Monday 3rd February at 16.22 hrs the Team were called by Cumbria Police to assist Two Female Walkers  who had reported themselves stuck somewhere on Striding Edge. The Duty Leader contacted the two and confirmed by Phone Find that they were on the steep climb heading up to Helvellyn Summit from Striding Edge.  On…

At 2pm on Wednesday 8th January, Cumbria Police tasked PMRT to an incident on Birkhouse Moor where a young man had fallen in deep snow and sustained a suspected dislocation of his shoulder. A Team doctor who happened to be on Helvellyn at the time was able to get to the injured man quickly and…

Cumbria Police contacted the team at 23:42 on the 5th January to inform us the 2 people were stuck in the snow in there car and had been there for 5 hours trying to sort it out themselves. Once they realised they weren’t able to make any further progress they tried to get a recovery…

Around 10:30 am on the 5th of January, the Team received information from Cumbria Police  that a fell walker who had been camping out had found three abandoned tents. The previous evening the fell walker saw lights at the same location. Later that evening a Patterdale Mountain Rescue Deputy Leader had seen lights descending the…

At the 13:05hrs on Friday 3rd January the Team were tasked by Cumbria Police to assist a Female who had slipped on a path in Aira Force and hurt her leg.  The Team were called out by the Duty Leader and made their way to the National Trust car park where the Rescue land-rovers had…

On Thursday 2nd January at 13:35hrs the Team received their first request for assistance for the new year.  Cumbria Police had received a request for a Female who had received a leg injury after she slipped on icy ground whilst descending Glenridding Dodd, due to the nature of the injury she could not walk any…