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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.
Exhausted Walker Hartsop Above How
January 12, 2025 2pm On Sunday 12/01/2025 at 1400hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by Cumbria Police to rescue an exhausted walker who had been located on the top of Hartsop Above How. Passersby had come across a lone walker in his seventies who was exhausted and cold and had lost course. The walker…
Shoulder injury – Birkhouse Moor
January 8, 2025 7:29 pm At 2pm on Wednesday 8th January, Cumbria Police tasked Patterdale MRT to an incident on Birkhouse Moor where a young man had fallen in deep snow and sustained a suspected dislocation of his shoulder. A Team doctor who happened to be on Helvellyn at the time was able to get…