Incidents

At 06:47 on Thursday 30th December Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team received a request to assist Wasdale MRT with a search for a man and his 11 year old son who had gone missing after setting out to climb Scarfell the previous day.  The search had been started the previous evening.  A vehicle and 4 team members were deployed as a search party on the ground, joining volunteers from many of the other Lake District Teams.  Two other team members assisted with strategic coordination and search management. The incident concluded at a 11:15 after the missing party managed to made their own way down to Boot.