Hamstring injury on Helvellyn

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to assist a 29 year old male suffering a ham-string injury. The man, from Gateshead, had ascended Striding Edge to the summit of Helvellyn when he sustained an injury to his ham-string. A passer by gave him some mild pain releif that meant he could slowly descend down…

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Snowboarder Suffers Spinal Injury

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members were called to assist a 24 year old man from Ambleside who had injured his spine whilst snowboarding in the Keppel Cove area, near to Helvellyn. Team members battled through snow which had blown into knee high and sometimes waste and shoulder high drifts. When they arrived on scene the…

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Rucksack Found on Striding Edge

The team had just finished a joint exercise with Penrith MRT when Cumbria Police called. A walker reported finding a rucksack near to Striding Edge, and after waiting an hour was concerned for the owner’s welfare. The team attempted to contact the owner of the rucksack but failed to do so. Given there was only…

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Group of 15 teenagers overdue from a walk in the Hartsop Area

At 19:00hrs on Wednesday 10 February, Patterdale MRT were alerted by Cumbria Police to a group of teenagers (15 in total) who were overdue from a walk in the Hartsop area. As the Team prepared to initiate search plans a local team member met the informant in Cow Bridge car park, during these discussions the…

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Female with twisted ankle, Scandale Pass

On Friday 12 February 2016, Patterdale MRT were alerted by Cumbria Police for a female who had sustained a twisted ankle while walking down Scandale Pass towards Ambleside. After confirmation of the grid reference the location was confirmed as being in the area of Langdale-Ambleside MRT and the rescue was then passed over to the…

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Woman slips on Gray Crag and fractures ankle

Patterdale Mountain rescue team members were called to rescue a sixty-eight year old local woman who had slipped and injured her ankle on Gray Crag, above Hartsop. The woman was given pain relief and her ankle was splinted. She was then placed on a stretcher and lowered down the fell to a waiting team Land…

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Unresposive female in Glenridding

The North West Ambulance Services alerted the Team to an unresponsive woman in Glenridding village. In the prevailing weather and limited road access to the village team members assisted the ambulance crew to reach and assess the woman.

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