Archives: Rescues

Coombs Wood, Armathwaite (51)

A runner had come across a lone climber with a serious head injury following a fall at a riverside crag in Coombs Wood n...

Callout Time: 1:33 pm
Agencies Involved: Penrith MRT, Cumbria Police, Helimed 63, NWAS, Keswick MRT

Kershope Forest, Borders (50)

Penrith MRT requested support from various MR teams, in an on-going search for a missing male around Kershope forest in ...

Callout Time: 7:45 am
Agencies Involved: Multiple MR teams, Search dogs, LDSAMRA Drones, Police

Skiddaw House track (49)

A small Duke of Edinburgh Award group with teachers were walking at the back of Skiddaw when a male teenage pupil suffer...

Callout Time: 1:35 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT

Derwentwater (48)

The team was alerted to five people on two paddleboards who had been blown into the middle of the lake by strong winds. ...

Callout Time: 8:03 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT, NWAS, Cumbria Fire and Rescue, Cumbria Police

Cat Gill (47)

The team received a call regarding a walker near Catgill who had suffered a severe and deep laceration to his knee after...

Callout Time: 5:43 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT, RAF Leeming MRT

Raven Crag, Gillercombe (46)

A report was received of a 60 year old woman who suffered a 50m tumbling fall, after slipping on steep broken ground whi...

Callout Time: 10:15 am
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT, Coastguard helicopter R897

Great Gable (45)

The team was called to assist a group descending Great Gable after a hiker became immobile with severe cramp. A rescue p...

Callout Time: 7:57 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT

Catbells (44)

A 23 year old female walker slipped whilst descending Skelgill Bank on Catbells injuring her ankle and rendering her una...

Callout Time: 1:47 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT

Below Sty Head (43)

A walker was descending from Sca Fell Pike when his boots fell apart. He was now walking in bare feet and getting cold. ...

Callout Time: 7:26 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT

Sharp Edge (42)

A man traversing Sharp Edge on Blencathra became stuck because of the steep terrain. Attempts to contact the walker by p...

Callout Time: 4:00 pm
Agencies Involved: Keswick MRT