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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.
Cockermouth team rounds the year off with 3 more callouts
After an unusually quiet December, Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out four times over the Christmas period. Firstly,at 15:24 on 20th December the Team was called to assist two males who had become benighted just below Great Gable in Windy Gap. The Team was about to start a training session in Cockermouth, so two…
Man collapsed below The Rake, Glenridding
Saturday 28/12/2019 12:35 Members of Patterdale MRT were called by Cumbria Police, Saturday 28 December, to a gentleman who had collapsed below The Rake above Glenridding. On arrival at the casualty site the team assessed the gentleman before stretchering him off the fell and bringing him back to his holiday accommodation in Glenridding. The incident…
Injured rider at Dyfi Bike Park
Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on Saturday 21st December. call handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were requested to assist the Welsh Ambulance Service crews in assisting an injured mountain bike rider near Machynlleth. The 15 year old male suffered serious leg injuries in a fall from his bike on the down-hill trails at Dyfi…
Two-vehicle RTC in snow and ice on Kirkstone Pass
Sunday 15/12/2019 10:57 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police to assist with the extraction of a gentleman who was stuck in his vehicle after a two car crash on the northerly decent of Kirkstone Pass. The Team arrived on scene alongside the Air Ambulance, the Fire Brigade and North West Ambulance service…