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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.
Lost walkers on Cader Idris
At around 2:30 p.m. on Monday 30th November, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a fragmented call received by Dyfed Powys Police, suggesting that walkers were in trouble on Cader Idris. Further broken conversations with the informant indicated that the two male walkers had become separated at some point on…
Double fall in West Waterfall Gully
Callout: 29/11/20. Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 15:50 on 29th November to assist a party of three males descending Pillar. The group had become disorientated whilst attempting to descend from the mountain, ending up in West Waterfall Gully in fading light and clag. One of the group had fallen approx 50ft and…
Couple crag fast on Striding Edge
November 26, 2020 8.00pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 8pm with reports of a couple who were lost and crag fast on Striding Edge. The phone find tool located them just off the main path on the head wall of Helvellyn. Six team members went out and reached their location at around…
MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM STRUGGLING TO FUND A NEW HOME
Three years after the devastating fire which destroyed the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team base in November 2017, the organisation is still occupying temporary accommodation provided by South Wales Fire & Rescue Service, having struggled to raise sufficient funds to build a new base. Mountain Rescue volunteers have been using Merthyr fire station as their temporary…