Cumbria Police alerted Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, at 11:49 on Saturday 20/11/2021, to a call received by Yorkshire Police regarding a man in his fifties from the London area who had slipped and tumbled about 20 feet whilst traversing Striding Edge.

Given the location, the nature of the report and the poor visibility in the area at the time, a full callout of the Team was initiated. The man was one of a party of four who were doing part of the Coast to Coast route from East to West. On contacting them it emerged that the casualty had sustained a deep laceration to his right leg but was able to make his way slowly back along Striding Edge.

A group of rescue team volunteers made there way up to Hole In The Wall from Grisedale, whilst a second group ascended via Mires Beck, both aiming to intercept the descending party. The man was able to make his own way from the fell and was then transported by Rescue Landrover back to the Team’s base where he was assessed and treated by two doctors and a nurse who are volunteer Team members.

The incident took 3 hours and involved 13 team members.

The Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 15.20hrs on Monday 15th November to a report of an elderly male who had fallen whilst walking and sustained a head injury in the Hartsop area around Threshwaite Cove. The team mobilised a Landrover to locate the man and his friend who was believed to be slowly walking towards the road.

On arrival at the car park at Hartsop the team met the casualty and his companion who had made good progress on foot. The casualty was conveyed to the Patterdale Team’s base where he was assessed by a team doctor as he had sustained bruising and grazing to his head , he was advised to attend Hospital for a check up and possible scan due to the nature of his fall.

14 team members attended the rescue which lasted just under 2 hours.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Saturday 30/10/21 at 1500hrs with regard to a report of a woman with a lower leg injury. The woman and her family had been making their way down Gowbarrow Fell towards Aira Force when she slipped and rolled down the hill injuring her leg.

Around 15 team members responded and quickly located the casualty. The casualty was treated by the team doctor and the leg injury was stabilised. She was then evacuated by stretcher down to the car park where she was transferred to a land ambulance for onward travel to hospital. The rescue lasted 3 hrs.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out by Cumbria Police at 15.00hrs Saturday 16th October to a woman who had slipped whilst descending towards Seldom Seen from Sheffield Pike. 9 team members, who were already at base for a prior engagement, attended in two vehicles and found the casualty around 100 metres from the track.

Team medics assessed the woman who had a suspected fractured wrist, which was placed in a splint and pain relief given. Due to the nature of the injury the woman was able to walk to the team Landrover where she was conveyed to the rescue base at Patterdale from where she made her way to hospital with her colleague for treatment.

The rescue took less than an hour to complete.

On Wednesday 13/10/21 at around 13:30 hrs the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out with regard to a man who had fallen 10 meters into Aira Force Gorge. Fire, Helimed and an NWAS land ambulance also responded. The man had tried to climb out and, unfortunately, fallen back into the gorge a second time.

When the team arrived at the scene the man had been in the water for about 1 hour and was extremely cold. The team quickly lowered a team member down to the casualty to stabilise and assess him. A rope system was rigged and the casualty was raised onto dry land. The very cold casualty was then assessed by medics at the scene for hypothermia and suspected leg and arm fractures.

The casualty was stabilised and then transported in a team vehicle to a land ambulance in a nearby car park. The rescue lasted for 2 hours and involved 13 team members. The team would like to thank the Cumbria Fire and Rescue service, NWAS and the Great North Air Ambulance for some great team work to quickly resolve the incident.

At 14:00hrs Friday 24 September, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted to a man who had slipped and injured his knee while descending from Barton Fell above Ullswater. The team was able to access the location from Roehead and travel towards Barton Fell using the 4×4 landrovers.

Once on scene the man’s injuries were assessed with first aid administered before being transferred back to Roehead to the waiting ambulance. On arrival back at Pooley Bridge the grateful companions kindly bought refreshments and wished us a “rescue free” weekend.

The Team’s 2021 incident attendance register records this callout as “Man fell from a stile – Duddon and Furness MRT incident”. No further public press-release wording survives in the archive.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Wednesday morning 08/09/21 by the North West Ambulance Service regarding a woman who had fallen about 50 foot in the water. The Great North Air Ambulance and land ambulance had been called out at the same time and the team met up with the other medical teams at the scene.

The walker had been pulled off a steep cliff by her dog and had landed in the shallow water below. She had sustained some serious injuries to her lower leg and was in a great deal of pain. The casualty was treated at the scene by the medics and she was then transferred onto a stretcher and evacuated by the Patterdale team to the helimed which had landed in a field some distance away.

She was then flown to the RVI in Newcastle. The team would like to thank the NWAS and GNAAS crews for some great team work which resulted in a quick and efficient rescue. The rescue involved 14 Patterdale team members and lasted for about 2 hours.

On Saturday 28th August 2021 at 14.21 hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police to a report of a 32 year old female who had fallen in Aira Force whilst walking around the waterfalls. The report given was that she had heard a loud snap when falling.

The team responded, located the casualty, and the Team Doctor assessed the injury. She had sustained a suspected fractured ankle and was in considerable pain, therefore she was given pain relief and packaged in a leg splint and stretchered from the scene to a Team Land Rover. She was then transferred to an ambulance and conveyed to hospital for further treatment.

16 team members attended the rescue which took around 3 hours to complete.

At about 15:45 on Thursday 19th August a 43 year old woman injured her ankle while walking in the Grisedale valley with her family. With no phone signal, the husband and son walked down to Cruck Barn holiday cottage to raise the alarm, before returning to the casualty site.

Patterdale Mountain rescue team was called at 17:52 and 16 Team members responded, making their way up to the family, a few hundred metres south of Ruthwaite Lodge. After assessing and splinting the woman’s left ankle and administering analgesia the team stretchered her down to a waiting Land Rover ambulance. A further examination was conducted back at the Team’s Rescue Centre and it was agreed that she would make here own way to hospital for an Xray.

The rescue involved 16 unpaid volunteer members and took about 3 hours. This was the fifth incident involving the Team in 3 days.