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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.
Wild Camper loses tent
At 21:50 on Saturday day April 20th Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by Cumbria Police to go to the aid of a young man who had misplaced his tent while wild camping on the fells above Ullswater. A 19yr old man had wandered away from his campsite at dusk and as darkness fell he was…
Trapped Woman near Pennal
At around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday 18th April, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a 70 year-old woman trapped in an outbuilding in a remote property near Pennal. The woman had fallen through the floor covering an old vehicle inspection pit some 48 hours earlier and was unable to escape…