The Team were called to assist a 69 year old male who had slipped and injured his back and ribs on the Ullswater lake shore path. The man from Cheshire was treated by the Great North Air Ambulance crew. The Team responded by rescue boat and asssited the air ambulance crew before transporting the man’s…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to a 54 year old female who had been walking with her family at Aira Force when she slipped, fracturing her ankle. The Rescue Team and Paramedics from North West Ambulance Service treated the lady at the scene for an open fracture to her ankle.She was given pain…

Patterdale MRT responded to a request by Cumbria Police to a girl who had reported taken an overdose of sleeping tablets close to the “Hole in the Wall” above Grisedale. As the team were approaching the scene the air ambulance had managed to transfer the casualty on board the aircraft began departing from the scene.The…

Patterdale MRT were called to assist a 69yr old male with a suspected fractured leg, close to Great Mell Fell. On arrival on scene the team assessed the injury and treated the fracture and then transferred the male on a stretched down to the waiting ambulance. The incident lasted 1.5hrs and was attended by 10…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were asked to assist in a search for a missing Grouse Beater on the Pennines. Ten Mountain Rescue Teams, seven Search Dogs and a Coastgaurd Helicopter and Army personnel from Warcop were tasked to search for the missing man when he became seperated from the shooting party. The man was found…

At 2200 on Saturday 15th October Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members were called by Cumbria Police following a 999 call reporting that a 50-year-old man had fallen down the front face of Dove Crag. The man had planned on spending the night with a group of eight friends in the Priest’s Hole, a shallow overhang,…

At 1800, on 30th October, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members were called to assist two men from Swirral Edge, Helvellyn. They were uninjured but had become stuck on the ridge when it unsurprisingly went dark an hour earlier than yesterday. The Team Leader said: ‘The Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association made a concerted…

Patterdale MRT were called by Cumbria Police at 15:43hrs on Tuesday 25 October 2016 to reports of an adult male and teenager treading water after their canoe capsized approximately 1 mile from Pooley Bridge. The Team launched their rigid inflatable rescue boat and along with a safety boat from Outward Bound Ullswater headed towards the…

Patterdale MRT were called by Cumbria Police at 18:11hrs on Saturday 29 October 2016 to reports of a party of three who were believed to be lost and exhausted in the vicinity of High Hartsop Dodd. While the Team established the location of the party using the SARLOC location system, it was confirm the party…