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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.
Knee Injury Aira Force
September 23, 2023 15.23 On Monday 18th September at 15.23hrs whilst the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was at the funeral of Team Member Chris Lewis the Team was contacted by Cumbria Constabulary regarding a report of a woman who had fallen at the High Cascades in Aira Force, sustaining a knee injury and requiring assistance….
The Funeral of Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis, a member of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, was critically injured during the night of the 6/7th February 2021 during a deployment on Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass near Ambleside. Sadly, following a long and challenging recovery, after a very short illness Chris succumbed to pneumonia and died in Furness General Hospital on the…