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Keep up to date with everything going on in mountain rescue around England and Wales, contact Jonathan Caswell via pr@mountain.rescue.org.uk.
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,…
The Key Safe Company to the rescue in Oldham
The UK’s market leader in access solutions, The Key Safe Company, has provided Oldham Mountain Rescue Team with a total donation of five key safes, ensuring the team have immediate access to its resources whenever needed. Covering part of the Peak District National Park and rural areas of Greater Manchester, the Oldham Mountain Rescue Team…
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…