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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.
Male stuck in Ravine
October 23, 2023 12:30 hrs On Monday 23rd Oct at 12:30hrs the Patterdale MRT responded to their fourth rescue in the space of 18 hours. North West Ambulance had received a report that a man had slipped off a ledge at Aira Force and was hanging onto a branch. The Duty leader again called…
Swimmer missing in Ullswater
October 23, 2023 08:00hrs At 08:00 on Monday 23rd October Cumbria Police requested assistance from Patterdale MRT to search for a swimmer who had not returned to the shore after his regular morning swim with a group. The team was called and launched the Rescue Rib onto the lake to go and locate the…
SRT Search Assist
October 23, 2023 06:00hrs On Monday 23rd October at 06:00 hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was requested by Cumbria Police to provide SRTs (Swift Water Rescue Technicians) to assist with a search for a male who had gone into the river at Warwick Bridge near Carlisle. Team members travelled to the scene where they were…
Lost/Unable to move – Bonscale Pike
October 22, 2023 18:25hrs On Sunday evening 22nd October at 18:25hrs the Duty leader at Patterdale MRT was contacted by Cumbria Police regarding reports of two ladies who were lost and unable to move somewhere near Bonscale Pike in the Howtown area. Contact was made with the couple and their location was pinpointed with…
Rescue Team’s 50th Birthday
They might have been tempting fate, but on Fri 13th October, AberdyfiSearch and Rescue Team gathered together to celebrate their 50thbirthday. Originally bearing the somewhat unwieldy name of “Outward Bound SeaSchool, Aberdyfi, Search & Rescue Team” the rescue organization wasofficially convened in September 1973, though had been operating inthis capacity since the mid 1960’s at…
Ankle Injury Aira Force
October 15, 2023 12:35 hrs On Sunday 15th October at 12:35hrs Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by North West Ambulance Service to a report of a male who had slipped whilst walking at Aira Force. The Duty Leader spoke to the man and established what had happened and then called the team out to…