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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.
Cold walkers on Gray Crag
August 21, 2023 16:10 hrs On Monday, August 21st at 16:10 the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was tasked by Cumbria Police to go to the aid of a group of young people who had become cold and were unable to continue their walk due to strong winds. Sixteen team members responded and thirteen made their…
Cragfast in the Patterdale Valley
August 13, 2023 21:55 At 21:55 on Saturday 12/08/2023 Cumbria Police called Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team for the second time that day. A report had been received of a party of two people who had set off from Patterdale for Angle Tarn to camp, but were lost and now stuck and unable to move on…
Woman with abdominal pain at Grisdale Tarn
August 12, 2023 7am Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called at 07:00 on Saturday 12/08/2023 by the police, who had received a report of a woman camping near Grisedale Tarn who had developed severe abdominal pain and was unable to make her way down off the fell. Team members responded to the callout and…