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Keep up to date with everything going on in mountain rescue around England and Wales. For press enquiries, contact Andy Simpson, MREW Press Officer, via press@mountain.rescue.org.uk.
Female with knee injury
February 7, 2026 3:45 pm On Saturday 7th February at 15:45hrs Cumbria Police contacted Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team following reports of a female who had been walking and had sustained an injury to her knee and was unable to carry on. The Duty Leader contacted the casualty and her companions and established that they…
Keswick MRT assist, Brown Cove Crags
January 30, 2026 5 pm On Friday 30/01/25 at 1700hrs Patterdale MRT assisted Keswick MRT on an incident on the west side of Helvellyn. A walker had slipped and fallen in the snow a 100 meters down a gully on Brown Cove Crags. Five Patterdale Members had just returned to their base from a snowy…