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…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to assist North West Ambulance Service and Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service on Friday 8th December to help extract a lady who had been involved in a serious road accident and was down a steep embankment still inside her vehicle. The lady was stabilised on scene by Team Doctors…

On Saturday 30th December, volunteer members of Patterdale MRT were alerted by Cumbria Police to a male and female who reported themselves as lost in the vicinity of Aira Force. As the team arrived at Aira Force to undertake a search the missing people turned up safe and well at the carpark. Another happy ending.…

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…