Overview
- On January 11, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team located a camper on Nethermost Pike in a collapsed tent, judged to be “dangerously cold,” after poor phone signal complicated the search.
- Additional Patterdale members and Penrith Mountain Rescue Team were deployed as progress off the fell was made on foot, with a Coastguard helicopter stood down once the descent was underway.
- A day earlier near Ill Crag, Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team stretchered an injured walker to Wasdale Head after air rescue was hindered by low cloud.
- The Wasdale operation involved 20 volunteers with support from RAF Mountain Rescue Service RAF Leeming and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s Rescue 199 and ran about nine and a half hours into the night.
- The Patterdale rescue lasted roughly 10 hours and engaged 28 team members, and both casualties were safely evacuated from the fells with the walker later taken to hospital by his party.