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…

At 0830 on Friday 30th December, members of Patterdale MRT assisted Cockermouth MRT with a major search for a missing woman in Whinlatter forest near Keswick. The missing woman was not located and the Team were stood down later in the day. This was Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team’s 83rd call this year making 2010 the…

At 1340hrs the Police requested Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team to assist a female mountain walker from Brighton who had sustained a lower leg injury in the Grisedale Valley, Patterdale.On arrival at the site the Team discovered a second casualty from Nottingham doing the Coast to Coast walk with a suspected fractured wrist. Both were treated…

While loading the first casualty into the ambulance, the team were called via Ambulance Control to a man who had slipped while descending from Arnison Crag. On reaching the scene the casualty, a 74 year old man from Cheshire, was found to have sustained an open fracture of his left ankle. The injured ankle was…

At approximately 20:00 on 11th October, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to search for a missing lone walker on route from Windermere to Patterdale via High Street. The man was located at 23:00 near to the Knott, above Hayeswater dam. The weather had been good during the day but the temperature fell to just…

A man came to the Patterdale Mountain Rescue centre to request assistance as he believed his wife was suffering a Heart Attack at nearby Grisedale Bridge. Three members of the Team who were at the rescue base along with a medical student attended and the woman was examined and given intravenous pain relief. A fast…

A member of the Penrith MR team wittnessed a female who had collapsed on the Grisedale Road. He allerted the Patterdale Team who were working minutes away at the rescue centre. The Team attended with medical equipment and monitored the woman who had subsequently recovered before returning her with her companion to her hotel.