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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.
Leg injury on Cader Idris
At around 4:15 p.m. on Thursday 4th July, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team were made aware of an injured woman just above the Minffordd steps on Cader Idris. The woman, in her late 60’s and from the Aberystwyth area, was part of a small party intending to walk to Llyn Cau. At around…
67 year old man falls at Scarth Gap
Scarth Gap Callout 29/06/19 Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out at roughly 15:45 on Saturday 29th June. The Team was requested to assist a 67-year-old male walker who had fallen whilst descending from High Crag to Scarth Gap, above Buttermere. The casualty had multiple wounds and due to the mechanism of injury, support was…
Fatigued 84 year old on Cader Idris
At about 8:45 p.m. on Thursday 27th June, and midway through a technical rope rescue training session, Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team call-handlers were alerted to a man struggling on the descent from Cader Idris. The 84 year old man, from Stratford upon Avon and part of a well equipped family group of three, was…