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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.

Rescued Lake District walker thanks mountain team for help

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Mountain Rescue volunteer takes search techniques developed in Northumberland global

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Mountain rescue team helped an injured camper in the Pennines

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This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

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Ankle Injury

October 3, 2024 5.05 pm On Thursday 3rd October at 17:05hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by North West Ambulance Service to assist a female who had slipped and hurt her leg descending from Helvellyn at Myers Beck near Glenridding.   The Team responded from Patterdale Base in two Landrovers to treat the lady….

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Boat Hit A Rock

September 28, 2024 6.30 pm On Saturday 28th September at 18:30hrs  Cumbria Police contacted the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team with a request to assist a man who had been sailing on Ullswater and hit a rock in the lake around 40 metres from shore. The Team responded and, using their Rescue Rib “Patrick Pete“, they…

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Helicopter called to capsized boat rescue

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Penrith Mountain Rescue Team save lost walker and their dog

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89 year old unable to continue walk over Place Fell

September 16, 2024 6.15 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue team was contacted for a second time on Monday the 16th September by Cumbria Police at 18:15. On this occasion the elderly gentleman who had been walking on Place fell with his wife had started down a steep decent, sat down for a rest and found he…

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Lost on Glencoyne Traverse Path

September 16, 2024 4.15 pm On Monday 16th of September PATTERDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM was contacted by Cumbria Police at 16:15 to help assist a person who had lost their way walking from Aira Force to Glencoyne. The walker, who was from the USA and staying in a local hotel, had contacted the police initially…

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