PMRT were tasked by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to search for an 18 year old man from Lancashire who was reported to be in difficulties after his kayak capsized close to Pooley Bridge. A search was made of the area with the Team’s rescue boat along with boats from Outward Bound and The National…

The Team were called to assist the North West Ambulance Service at High Force, Ullswater. A woman aged 35, had fallen and sustained a fractured arm and facial lacerations. The NW Air Ambulance had been despatched along with a County Ambulance. Because this was an off road incident the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were also…

The Team were called by Cumbria Police to a female walker who had slipped and sustained a suspected broken ankle. The team treated her injuries and transported her to the mountain rescue ambulance, and then to Patterdale Mountain Rescue Centre were she was transferred to a county ambulance.

The Team were called by the Police at around midnight, after a Duke of Edinburgh Award Assessor reported that a group of six 17 yr old girls had not arrived at a their checkpoint at Pooley Bridge. The girls from a school in Basingstoke had been dropped off at Hartsop earlier in the day but,…

On Saturday 10th July, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team rescued a 65 year old walker from Oldham who had slipped and fallen 200 feet from Swirral Edge, Helvellyn. The man had fallen into Brown Cove and sustained head and facial injuries.The Great North Air Ambulance also attended, but due to low cloud was unable to reach…

The police called the Team to assist a 16 yr old student from an outdoor centre. The student had slipped whilst on a supervised gorge scramble and damaged his ankle. The Mountain Rescue Team took a Land-rover ambulance to Boredale to assist in evacuation of the boy. The three instructors had already helped the student…

The police called the Team to assist a 19yr old male who slipped and exacerbated an old injury and was unable to walk. The team located the group high above Swarth Beck and the Team doctor assessed the injury. The casualty was lowered down the fell with ropes on a stretcher to the farm below.…

At around 1930 on Friday 21st July the police called the Team to search for a 45 year old female. The woman had been fell walking in the Helvellyn area with a companion. They became separated at Kepple Cove Zig Zags. Her partner waited at the Glenridding Youth Hostel for her return but after two…

At 16.45pm the police called the Team to locate and assist a family from Manchester who had become disorientated and needed assistance to get back down to their holiday lodging at Swarthbeck, Ullswater. The parents and six children, aged from 6 months to nine years old, were located by the Team and brought back down…

On Saturday 27th February at 18.00 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were asked by Cumbria Police to go to the assistance of 5 persons who were cold and lost and were unable to descend from the summit of Helvellyn in the dark. The party had walked along Striding Edge and reached the summit plateau from where…

On Saturday 13th March 2010 at 12.20 Patterdale Mountain rescue Team were alerted to assist a female climber from Hayfield, Derbyshire who had slipped and fallen 200 metres while climbing in Brown Cove, Helvellyn. The faller had been seen by a search Dog handler who along with a number of SARDA Lakes colleagues were on…