Walkers crag fast on Helvellyn headwall. Cumbria Police requested Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team to aid 2 walkers from Leeds who had become misplaced and on very steep ground. 11 members of the Team searched the higher reaches of the Red tarn basin and Striding Edge, in poor, windy weather. They were located in the cloud…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were requested at approximately 15:00 to assist a woman who had injured her ankle on the ridge path between Nethermost Pike and Dollywaggon Pike. A total of the 14 members of the team attended the incident, taking landrovers to the head of the Grisedale Valley before ascending the east ridge of…

Patterdale MRT were called by the Police to assist a group of 7 young people lost in low cloud on Wether Hill. However by the time contact was made they had met up with their supervisor.

Patterdale Mountain rescue team were called out by Cumbria Police at 15.45 to assist a 55yr old man from Carnforth Lancashire. The man had slipped on damp ground on Middle Dodd and fractured his ankle. The man was treated for the injury, splinted and carried by stretcher down to a waiting County ambulance and on…

Patterdale Mountain rescue team were called out by Langdale Ambleside MRT to assist in locating 2 fell walkers from the Wirral. They had deviated from their original route because of snow and had become benighted. They were located by a search team uninjured, provided with lighting and escorted down to Deepdale were they were kindly…

Whilst finishing the second incident we were tasked by Cumbria Police to 2 Hill walkers from York who due to thick mist had misplaced the footpath and strayed onto steep craggy ground. They correctly stopped and asked for assistance. A search party located them unhurt and escorted them to the valley bottom.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called by the Police at 16:00 to assist a climber who had fallen approximately 100ft off the face of Helvellyn. The woman, a 20 year old student from London, was winter climbing with a group of other students when she slipped. The woman was treated at the scene for multiple…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called at 15.30 to rescue a climber from Penrith who had slipped and landed badly sustaining a suspected spinal injury. The rescue had been passed to the Patterdale Team from Langdale Ambleside MRT due to a wrongly given initial location. The climber had injured his lower spine and was eventually…

Two climbers from Leeds who had completed a route on Helvellyn called the Police to report that they were disorientated and needed directions to get off the fell. Repeated attempts to get back to their mobile phones were thwated due to very poor reception. By sending text messages the Team eventually made contact and the…

At 15:30 on Monday 27th December Patterdale Mountain Rescue team were called by Cumbria Police to rescue a walker who had fallen from the summit plateau of Helvellyn. The 39 year old man from Preston had been walking with friends when he fell through a cornice in very poor visibility, near to the summit of…

Patterdale Mountain Rescue team were called by Police at 6pm to go to the assistance of a group of six people who were stranded on the fell. The group from Gateshead had no torches and included three young children (8, 3 and 2 years old) and were unable to continue in the darkness. The team…

At 1400 on Thursday 30th December Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to rescue a man who had fallen approximately 150 metres from Swirral Edge, Helvellyn. His companions descended and performed basic life support at the scene until assistance arrived. The man, aged 43, from St Helen’s was then airlifted by a Seaking helicopter from…