At 13:06hrs on Christmas Eve, volunteer members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called by Cumbria Police to assist a female walker who had sustained a fractured ankle while out walking with friends at Winter Crag, Martindale. On arrival at scene the ankle was assessed and placed in a vacuum splint. The female was placed…

Patterdale MRT were called to assist Penrith MRT with an incident above Blea Water early yesterday evening. A climber had suffered multiple injuries following a fall. The climber, and his colleague, were extremely well prepared and very experienced mountaineers. The rescue lasted for several hours, involved 40 mountain rescuers, the air ambulance and the Coastguard…

Volunteer members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were contacted by Cumbria Police on Wednesday 6th December to reports of a couple lost near Helvellyn. The team were able to establish contact with the couple and obtained a location from their smart phone, which positioned them at Birkside Gill on the slope of Willie Wife Moor.…

On Saturday 2 December 2017, volunteers of Patterdale MRT were called out by Cumbria Police, to assist a male who had slipped on ice and sustained a head injury at the Hole in the Wall, above Red Tarn The male who had been out walking with his wife was treated at the scene by team…

On Tuesday 10 October 2017, Volunteers of Patterdale MRT were called out by NWAS, to help evacuate a woman with an ankle injury from St Raven’s Edge above Kirkstone Pass. The young lady who had been out walking with her partner was treated at the scene by the team doctor for a suspected fracture ankle.…

We’ve just had a call out running for the past four hours. A couple of chaps lost in the cloud. Our SARLOC system didn’t work on their phone so we asked the lost people to download OS locate over their 4G connection and within seconds we had a grid reference. Once we had this reference…