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At around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday 17th Oct, just as Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team call-handlers were finishing guiding a lost walker from Cader Idris, a request was received to assist the Welsh Ambulance Service with a seriously injured mountain biker at Dyfi Bike Park near Machynlleth. The male rider, in his 30s, had fallen off his bike and despite…

October 16, 2021 4:48 pm Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out by Cumbria Police at 15.00hrs Saturday 16th October to a woman who had slipped whilst descending towards Seldom Seen from Sheffield Pike.   9 team members, who were already at base for a prior engagement, attended in two vehicles and found the casualty…

October 13, 2021 1.30 pm On Wednesday 13/10/21 at around 13:30 hrs the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out with regard to a man who had fallen 10 meters into Aira Force Gorge. Fire, Helimed and an NWAS land ambulance also responded. The man had tried to climb out and, unfortunately, fallen back into…

October 9, 2021 2.20 pm At 14.20hrs on Saturday 9th October Patterdale Mountain Rescue was called by Cumbria Police to reports of a lady in her seventies who had been walking with friends on Watermillock Common above Swineside Knott. She had become exhausted, fallen numerous times and was unable to continue.   The team responded…

The beautiful but challenging terrain of Dartmoor National Park was the setting for a collaboration between Gravity Industries, which has developed and patented a 1050 brake horsepower Jet Suit, and the North Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team (NDSART). The exercises at Meldon Reservoir and Black Tor saw Gravity Industries Founder and Chief Test Pilot Richard…