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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.
Head Injury Hartsop
November 15, 2021 15.20 hrs 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…
Fatality on Striding Edge
November 2, 2021 16.50 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out by the Police at 16:50 on Tuesday 02/11/2021 to search for a 54 year old man from Cheshire who was reported missing on Striding Edge. The man and his wife had set off in the early afternoon to climb Helvellyn via Striding Edge; however,…
Leg Injury Descending From Caudale Moor
November 13, 2021 19.35 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted at 19:35 on Saturday 13/11/2021 to assist a 56 year old man who had slipped whilst descending the ridge above Cauldale Bridge. He was a member of a party of 5 well equipped and experienced walkers who had been practicing night navigation skills on Cauldale Moor. …
Rescue Team starts trials with new radio system
On Sunday 7th Nov., a significant portion of Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team was out on Cader Idris helping run some tests with their new digital VHF radio system. “On a very simplistic level, the new digital handsets perform much the same task as our old analogue radios” said Team volunteer Chris Dunn who has…