Photographs on Call Outs Page

13th May 02.40 hrs

Yes, 02.40 hrs! The Team's Leader Group was paged and asked to join a serach for a missing person in the Farleton area. In view of the hour, it was decided not to call the whole team out at that stage. A small search team and a couple of search dogs were mobilised and were on route when the individual was found by the police at 03.14 hrs. All that adrenaline and nothing to do with it!!!

8th May 14.36 hrs

Gimmer Crag again?! The team was called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team with a climber who had fallen, stripping out two runners, on Gimmer Crag in Langdale. The climber had broken his ankle in the fall and was evacuated to the valley for onward trasport to hospital.

6th May 17.00 hrs (approx)

At the end of the previous incident, the Team was asked to assist L&A on their other job which was turning out to be a lot more difficult than expected. A female climber (one of a group of three) had got her knee stuck in a crack in the rock on "A Route", Gimmer Crag, Langdale. She had got stuck at about 12.30 hours and they called for help after spending about 90 minutes trying to solve the problem. L&A team members abseiled down the crag and found the knee to be well and truly stuck. It looked like a long job and Kendal team members were dispatched to the top and the bottom of the crag with additional equipment, food, water and lights. After repeated attemps to free the knee failed, the Cave Rescue Organisation and a SeaKing from RAF Boulmer were mobilised. The RAF (Rescue 131) lifted members of CRO and their specialist equipment to the top of the crag. Eventually the CRO managed to break off the rock flake that was trapping the climber and, uninjured, she managed to abseil off the crag and walk down to the valley as it was getting dark (about 2100 hrs).  A good example of how a small mishap can turn into something of an epic even for experienced climbers. The brew and the hot pies at L&A's base were much appreciated. Pity there was no soup!

6th May 14.55 hrs

The Team was called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team at an incident on Gibson Knott, Greenburn as they were already committed to another job (more on that later!!!). A lady with a knee injury was stretchered from the fell in absolutely beautiful weather for a change.

30th April 08.25 hrs

The team was called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team with a group of 5 walkers who were reported to be hypothermic and in the vicinity of Esk Hause. Team members were deployed up Rossett Gill and up The Band and an RAF SeaKing was also deployed. The RAF located the group below Scafell in Eskdale and dealt with the incident. Team members returned to base at about mid day.

26th April 18.30 hrs

Shortly after returning to base from the previous callout, the Team was requested to assist the Penrith Team in searching for a group of four missing walkers in the Wet Sleddale area.  Fortunately, the group turned up just as the Team was assembling so we did not miss our dinners.

26th April 15.00 hrs

The Team was called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team to search for a missing walker who had become lost in cloud and cragfast somewhere on the Fairfield horseshoe.  They were in telephone contact with the missing person who thought that he was on Heron Pike. L&A Team had searched Heron Pike, Great Rigg and Fairfield without success. Shortly after members of the Kendal Team were deployed to search up Low Pike and High Pike, the gentleman was located by L&A Team members on steep ground in Link Cove (just north of Hart Crag).

2nd April 21.20 hrs

The Team was asked to provide safety cover for the Police during an incident below Nether Bridge in Kendal where a youth was in the River Kent.  The Team was mobilised including its Swift Water Rescue Team, in support of Police, Fire and Ambulance crews already on scene. The incident was resolved shortly afterwards when the youth was assisted up the river bank by the fire and rescue service.