Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Tuesday 17/08/21 at around 1600. The report was of a young casualty who was doing his DoE with his school. The casualty had sustained a knee injury and was unable to continue. He was located at the top of Scandale Pass.

His knee was stabilised using a vacuum splint and he was then evacuated to the road on a stretcher and taken back to his accommodation in Patterdale. 15 team members attended and the rescue lasted 3hrs.

On Tuesday 03/08/21at 13.27hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out by Cumbria Police regarding a walker who had slipped on Striding Edge. The casualty was a 80 year old walker who had been traversing the edge with her family when she tripped and landed on her wrist.

The Deputy leader made contact with the lady and her family and established that apart from the wrist injury and some grazes on her leg she was fit and well. A plan was formed to send the team to meet up with the group, asses her injuries and either walk or stretcher her off the hill. Once the team met up with the casualty at the end of Striding Edge she was treated for a suspected broken wrist, splinted and given pain relief.

The lady was happy to walk down the path into Grisedale alongside the team to a waiting team Land Rover where she was conveyed to the family’s car for the onward journey to hospital with her family as they were on holiday in the area. 11 team members attended the rescue which took 4.5 hours.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Friday 30/07/2021 at around 1400hrs with regard to a woman with an ankle injury at Aira Force. 11 team members turned out and quickly located the woman who had slipped and suffered a suspected broken ankle.

The casualty was treated at the scene by the team doctor and paramedic. After the ankle had been stabilised the casualty was evacuated to the Park Brow car park. The casualty then made her own way to hospital for treatment. The rescue lasted 2.5 hrs.

On Sunday 25/07/21 at around 13:30hrs, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out to an injured paraglider who had crashed just below Wolf Crags. At the time of the call the team were at Aira Force finishing a separate mountain rescue incident.

A team of 5 members in a team Landrover quickly responded and also requested an air ambulance due to the nature of the initial report. The team arrived at the scene around the same time as the Great North Air Ambulance. The casualty was a paragliding student under tuition and had landed badly whilst coming down. The casualty was treated at the scene for an ankle injury.

He was then transferred to the air ambulance for onward travel to hospital. The incident was attended by 10 team members. The team would like to thank the Great North Air Ambulance for their quick joint response.

The Team’s 2021 incident attendance register records this callout as “Leg injury at Aira Force”. No further public press-release wording survives in the archive.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 12.37hrs on Sunday 11th July to a female in her early sixties who had slipped whilst descending from Beda Fell Knott down to Dale Head Farm in Martindale. Due to there being no mobile phone coverage in the area the lady’s companions had raised the alarm by walking down to the farm .

Three vehicles were despatched and travelled to the head of Martindale where team members proceeded on foot to the casualty site. After treatment at the scene the casualty was put in a leg splint and conveyed off the fell in a stretcher to a team Land Rover. The group were driven back to Patterdale Mountain Rescue Base from where they then made their own way to hospital for further treatment.

The rescue lasted a total of 3 hours and involved 17 team members.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted shortly after 14:00 on 21/06/2021 to respond to a 60 year old woman who had tripped whilst walking close to the summit of St Sunday Crag. She had suffered a laceration to her forehead and a suspected fracture of her left wrist.

The party with the woman improvised a sling and gave her paracetamol and ibuprofen before starting the decent towards Patterdale. Four team members in two Team vehicles drove up the Grisedale Valley and then walked up to meet the casualty and her party. After a brief assessment they returned to the vehicles and brought the woman down to the Team’s Rescue Centre.

She was later driven to Cumbria Infirmary Carlise by her husband. The rescue lasted 3 hours and involved 6 team members.

The Team’s 2021 incident attendance register records this callout as “Broken ankle at Aira Force”. No further public press-release wording survives in the archive.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police at 15:01 on Saturday 5th June to assist a woman who had fallen and cut her lower leg whilst walking between Grisedale Tarn and Deepdale Hause. The report mentioned the use of a tourniquet which the Team were unable to confirm with the casualty’s party due to the loss of the phone signal.

For this reason, the Great North Air Ambulance was requested to assist. While Team members ascended towards the casualty’s location on foot the Air Ambulance landed on the ridge above the casualty and the crew were able to descend the short distance to the casualty site. The wound was dressed, before the woman was flown down to valley for transfer to a land ambulance and onward transportation to hospital.

The incident lasted 2 hours and involved 13 team members.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called at about 15:40 on Thursday 03/06/2021 to assist a woman from Birmingham who had slipped and injured her ankle whilst walking on Gowbarrow. The casualty’s party didn’t have mobile phone coverage and the incident was reported by passers-by.

By the time the Team arrived on scene the woman, who was in some pain, had managed to shuffle herself a considerable distance down the Fell towards Aira Force Beck. She was assessed by a Team medic and had her ankle splinted before being stretchered to a Team vehicle and transported back to her car. She was then driven to Penrith Hospital by her companions.

The rescue took about 2 hours and involved 9 team members.