Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team Undertake Five Rescues in Less than 24 Hours ‘Find My Friends, the Apple App, helps to save a man’s life in the English Lakes’ Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, in the Lake District National Park, undertook five rescues between 1500 on Sunday and 1500 Monday afternoon. The first rescue on Sunday afternoon…

Patterdale MRT assisted a male who had crashed his handglider at Wolf Crags and injured his arm and hand. The man was transferred into the NWAS Helicopter and transferred to hospital for further treatment

Patterdale MRT were tasked by NWAS to a male who was suffering chest pains at The Coombes close to Howtown Hotel. The male was treated on scene and transferred to an Ambulance at Pooley Bridge.

Patterdale MRT were alerted by NWAS of two people who were in the lake after their boat had capsized. As the team prepared to launch their rescue boat the people had swan ashore and reported themselves as safe and well.

At 23:54hrs on Friday night Patterdale MRT were alerted by Cumbria Police to flashing lights and yelling from the top of Birkhouse Moor. The team established contact with the reporting person who after further discussions confirmed it was a party descending and no assistance was required. The team was stood down and no further action…

Two walkers on Helvellyn came accross a group of 4 people at the summit cross shelter who had become hypothermic. They phoned Cumbria Police via 999 and Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were duly tasked to this rescue. Whilst Team members were ascending the 3117 foot high mountain, another 4 people had stopped on the summit…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to an 83 year old lady who had fallen 12 metres from the lake footpath down towards the lake.The Team responded with all four of their Rescue vehicles and launched their Rescue Boat, ‘Patrick Scotty.’North West Ambulance Service also responded with an Ambulance, Fast Response Car and a…

On Saturday 29th April, a 69-year-old man fell approximately 300ft from St Sunday Crag in the Lake District. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members ascended to the scene of the incident where a passing police officer and emergency medical technician from Cumbria were assisting the man and his friends. The man had suffered serious head injuries,…

At 16:00hrs on Bank Holiday Monday, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out by Cumbria Police to assist a 50yr old female who had slipped and injured her ankle while out walking in Pasture Bottom, nr Ullswater. When the team arrived on scene, the female who was out walking with a group of fellow doctors,…