Styhead Tarn (150)

Callout Date: 23/10/2026
Callout Time: 2:11 pm
Agencies Involved: Wasdale MRT, Keswick MRT, Dudgeon & Furness MRT

Wasdale MRT requested assistance to help search for a group who had triggered a couple of iPhone SOS near to Styhead pass, with one of the messages including detail of a woman unable to move due to a hip injury. As Keswick team were making their way down Borrowdale valley, Wasdale received information that the persons were at the Styhead stretcher box and their team members were close. Keswick team were therefore stood down and returned to base. Wasdale subsequently arrived at the stretcher box but the casualty party could not be found. The iPhone centre then provided a new location for the party near to Taylor Gill Force above Seathwaite, so Keswick team set off again to locate them but soon after a call came through that the party were now at Seathwaite and no assistance was required.

8 team members  – 1 hour 5 minutes