Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were alerted by a walker who had seen two females who looked like they were possibly struggling with the terrain on Striding Edge, Helvellyn. The informant thought the couple may be cragfast and unable to go up or down. With the shorter day light hours the Team quickly responded. As the…

At about 1320 on Sunday 25th October two mountain bikers dropped into the base of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team asking for help. Their friend, also mountain biking, had fallen off his bike and sustained a suspected fractured ankle. The team were mobilised and whilst responding the man made his own way off the mountain. He…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team’s busiest every year. Every time Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team undertakes a rescue we publish a press release explaining the facts about what happened and how we responded. However today wasn’t a typical day. Firstly, a man tragically died on Helvellyn. He was the sixth person to die on the mountain this…

The team was called to assist a man who had become stuck below the main bridge at Aira Force. The man was above the main falls and in a very difficult and dangerous position. Police, Fire & Rescue, Ambulance and the Team went to his aid. The man was safely recovered before the Team arrived.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team along with the Air Ambulance were called to assist a 54 year old lady who had fallen on the path heading towards Dowthwaite Head Farm.The lady who was walking with her partner on Brown Hills, slipped on the path and injured her ankle and was unable to proceed.As the Team were…

At 11:45 on Sunday 11th October Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members were called to assist a 44 year old woman who had slipped and injured her ankle. She was given pain relief and her leg was splinted before she was stretchered to a waiting mountain rescue Land Rover 1km below. The woman was then transferred…

At about five o’clock on Monday evening Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were tasked to help a local shepherd and his dog on St Sunday Crag. The shepherd was clearing sheep with his pack of dogs when ‘Kim’ a blue merle Border Collie went up into the crags in East Chockstone Gulley and became stuck on…

At 15:03hrs Patterdale MRT were called by Cumbria Police to a lone mountain biker who had become geographically misplaced due to low cloud and poor visibility in the area of Matterdale Common. Once contact was established with the individual, a grid reference was quickly ascertained. This, and an improvement in the weather enabled the individual…

The Team were requested to assist Penrith MRT in a major search of Cross Fell in the Northern Pennines.

A man slipped and fell landing near his climbing partner. He fractured his ankle and his climbing partner sustained a badly lacerated foot. They were treated on the hill and brought back to the rescue base before they chose to drive back to their home town for hospital treatment.