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Airlift for walker with spinal injuries on Buttermere path

A walker was airlifted to hospital after suffering suspected spinal injuries in a fall in the Lake District.

19 October 2013

Four teams in night-time search for lost Kinder Scout walker

A walker lost in the dark on the Peak District’s highest hill was found after a four-hour operation involving four mountain rescue teams.

18 October 2013

Man dies in 300ft fall from Glyder Fawr in Snowdonia

A man has died after falling more than 300ft from a Snowdonia mountain. The man, in his late 30s and from London, fell on to the path leading to th...

13 October 2013

Snowdonia route closed after rock injures climber and crashes on to road

A main road through Snowdonia was closed today after a climber was seriously injured after dislodging a large rock which then crashed on to the carriageway below.

12 October 2013

Mountain rescuers' training session ends in discovery of lost terrier Pip

Mountain rescuers used a training exercise to find a four-legged friend who had been missing in the Lake District for three days.

09 October 2013

Police confirm Kinloch Hourn body was missing walker Colin Barnfather

Police have confirmed the body found in the Kinloch Hourn area was that of missing Derby man Colin Barnfather.

07 October 2013

Rescuers praise 'public spirited' walkers who helped lost pair from Scafell

Rescuers have praised a group who led lost pair of walkers to safety from England’s second-highest mountain.

06 October 2013

Helvellyn walker dies in 650ft fall from Striding Edge

A man has died after falling 650ft from England’s third highest mountain. The 24-year-old walker fell 200m from Striding Edge on Helvellyn yester...

05 October 2013

Police name John Hamer as walker who died in Skye Cuillin fall

Police have named the man who died 10 days ago on the Skye Cuillin range. The body of John Hamer, 66, of Hayton, near Brampton, Cumbria, was found ...

04 October 2013

Rescuers plea to walkers to gear up after 18 get lost on Bleaklow

Mountain rescuers pleaded with walkers to go properly equipped after a group of 18 people got into difficulties on the Peak District’s second-highest hill.

19 October 2013

Rescuers in four-hour mission to free dog stuck in 80ft Snowdon crevice

A mountain rescuer spent more than two hours in an 80ft rock crevice on the side of Wales’s highest mountain in a delicate mission to rescue a fallen sheepdog.

14 October 2013

Walking couple rescued from Great Dodd after getting lost in low cloud

Two walkers were rescued from a Lake District fell after getting lost in low cloud. The couple called 999 from Great Dodd today after they became d...

12 October 2013

Rescuers' plea to take torch after trio rescued from Jack's Rake in dark

Rescuers warned walkers to pack a torch after three people were rescued after getting benighted on a Lake District scrambling route.

10 October 2013

Teen with head injury airlifted from Tryfan

A teenager was airlifted from a Snowdonia mountain after suffering a head injury in a fall. The 14-year-old was with a school party from Birmingham...

08 October 2013

Robert Pascoe named as walker who fell to his death from Striding Edge

Police have named the man who fell to his death from Helvellyn on Friday. Robert Pascoe, 24, from Liverpool, was walking with a companion when he f...

07 October 2013

Climber breaks leg in fall from Shepherd's Crag in Borrowdale

A climber was airlifted to hospital after falling on a popular Lake District crag. The 24-year-old man fell 6m (20ft) from the MGC route on Shepher...

05 October 2013

Rescuers called out to injured and lost walkers on Bleaklow and Kinder

A walker with an injured leg was rescued from the slopes of the Peak District’s second highest hill.

04 October 2013

Man airlifted after fall on Ben Nevis's North Face

A man was airlifted to hospital after suffering serious injuries in a fall on Ben Nevis’s North Face.

03 October 2013

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