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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.
Man with panic attack on Hallin Fell
Tuesday 18/06/2019 16:57 On 18th of June at around 1700hrs Cumbria Police received a call from a woman who reported that her partner had had a panic attack and was unable to move. The team responded and spoke to the informant over the phone and managed to obtain an exact location through the use of…
Man Taken Ill on Cader Idris
At about 2:30 p.m. on Monday 17th June, Call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a walker having seizures near the summit of Cader Idris. The 59 year old man, part of a group of 7 climbing the mountain, was taken ill a few hundred metres short of the summit of…
50th anniversary of Cockermouth Team tragedy
Saturday 15th June 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the most tragic event in Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team’s history. At approximately 12:30 on the 15th June 1969 there was an unprecedented rock fall at Low Crag where the team was training. One team member, John ‘Jock’ Thompson, was killed in the incident and a second,…
Great Gable Callout 27/07/19
Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 16:20 on Saturday 27th July. The Team was called to assist two walkers who were walking from Black Sail Youth Hostel to Borrowdale and had become disorientated near Great Gable in low cloud. The Team narrowed down the location of the casualties and advised them to stay…