At about 22:30 on Saturday evening Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members were called to assist two young men who had managed to get themselves benighted about 200 metres from where they had set off. The pair had planned to go on a short walk from the Youth Hostel at Greenside mines and ended up getting…

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At 13-16hrs today Patterdale MRT were call by NWAS to assist with the evacuation of a 48 year old lady who had slipped while walking on the path by Airaforce waterfall. The lady sustained a lower leg injury and was treated on scene by paramedics before being transferred on to the Team’s stretcher and carried…

No press release as minor job.

No press release as minor job.

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A female walker, in a group of four, fell approximately 30 metres down the mountain after slipping whilst descending a steep scree slope in Brown Cove. The walker, who was wearing wellington type boots, was flown by air ambulance to Patterdale MRT base having only sustained relatively minor injuries. The Team assisted the walker’s friends…

At 17-32hrs Patterdale MRT were call by Cumbria Police to go to the assistance of two people lost in the area of Thornthwaite Crag. The Team quickly located the missing persons using the SARLOC system and tasked four team members to the Beacon nr Thornwaithe Crag. The persons were located cold and wet but in…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by the North West Ambulance Service to assist with the rescue of an 18 year old girl who had slipped and fallen into Aira Force beck. The girl was part of a group of approximately 100 teenage girls from the Gateshead area. The girl, who had fallen about two…

The Team went to the aid of a 52 year old man who had reportedly broken his leg below Grisedale tarn. The Great North Air Ambulance was able to land close by and assess the casualty who it turned out had cut his leg. The man was flown back to Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team’s base…

At 1122 am on Saturday 20th June, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to reports that a man had fallen from Helvellyn in the Lake District. The Great North Air Ambulance, which was tasked to the rescue, was unable to get close to the scene due to low cloud. An RAF SeaKing Helicopter, which was…