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…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreOn Sunday 12/01/2025 at 1400hrs the team were tasked by Cumbria Police to rescue an exhausted walker who had been located on the top of Hartsop Above How. Passersby had come across a lone walker in his seventies who was exhausted and cold and had lost course. The walker had set off from Ambleside that…
Read MoreAt 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…
Read MoreCumbria 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…
Read MoreAround 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…
Read MoreAt 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…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreA group of four teenaged lads were camped at Angle Tarn when the weather deteriorated. The tent flysheet blew away and they panicked and called for help. The group split up and two of them made it off fell down to the car at Hartsop. The Team located them and then rescued other two, who…
Read MoreAt 15:07 on 18/11/2024 the Team received a request for assistance from the firebrigade after a car slipped off the track into a ditch, apparently trapping the driver. Eleven team members responded but were stood down before they reached the scene.
Read MoreOn Sunday 29th December at 20:54 the Team were contacted by Cumbria Police with a report that a man was possibly in trouble on Helvellyn. He had been reported missing by his wife who was at home, but had been tracking his progress and noticed that his position hadn’t moved for a few hours. Contact…
Read MoreAt 17:04 on Monday 30/12/2024 Cumbria Police passed on a call to Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team from a party of three reporting themselves lost on Helvellyn. The rescue team were placed on standby, but from the GPS data on the 999 call it was clear that the group were close to the path between Lower…
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