rescue

'Learn to navigate' call after rescue of pair who climbed mountain by mistake

Mountain rescuers said walkers should be able to navigate without the use of a GPS device. The advice came after a five-hour search for two women w...

18 April 2013

Lakeland walkers suffer injured knee and heart attack in two incidents

A Coast to Coast walker with a knee injury was rescued after falling on the route. The 63-year-old woman from Hertfordshire was reported to be betw...

17 April 2013

Great Langdale walker dies after fall in Dungeon Ghyll

A walker has died after a fall in the Lake District. The woman, who was with a group in Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale, fell from the path into the ...

16 April 2013

Walker airlifted from Cat Bells after leg injury

A walker was airlifted from a Lakeland fell after suffering serious leg injuries in a fall. The 59-year-old woman, from Northampton, was on Cat Bel...

15 April 2013

Group of 15 Yorkshire Three Peaks walkers rescued after getting lost

A group of 15 walkers undertaking a challenge had to be rescued after getting lost. Two separate sets of walkers tackling the Yorkshire Three Peaks...

14 April 2013

Two climbers rescued after getting lost in Glen Doll

Two men were rescued from the Angus glens after getting lost in bad weather. The two climbers were in the Glen Doll area yesterday when they became...

11 April 2013

Howgills walkers rescued after getting stuck at Cautley Spout

Four walkers were rescued from a fell in the Howgills after getting stuck 1,000ft up on a steep path.

10 April 2013

Rescuers' winter plea to walkers after couple get stuck on snow slope

Mountain rescuers pleaded with hillgoers to remember the Lake District’s fells are still in full winter conditions.

08 April 2013

Lakeland walker airlifted from Goat's Hawse after leg injury

A walker was airlifted to hospital after injuring herself on a Lakeland fell. The woman was coming down Goat’s Hawse between the Old Man of Conis...

06 April 2013

Couple airlifted from Tryfan after getting stuck

A couple were rescued from a Snowdonia mountain after getting stuck when they strayed on to a climbing route.

17 April 2013

Police name Swiss walker Elisabeth Huber who died in Dungeon Ghyll fall

Police have named the holidaymaker who died after falling more than 300ft into a Lake District ravine yesterday.

17 April 2013

Climber breaks thigh in 60ft fall from sea cliffs at Daddyhole Cove

A climber was rescued from a sea cliff after falling more than 60ft and breaking his thigh when his equipment failed to arrest a fall.

15 April 2013

Collapsed Black Mountains teen rescued by team he was fundraising for

A teenager taking part in a challenge walk that raises funds for mountain rescue ended up being rescued himself after he collapsed with appendicitis.

15 April 2013

Rescuers use smartphone to find three Nevis climbers stuck on wrong route

Three climbers were rescued after getting stuck on a route on Britain’s highest mountain. The trio became cragfast on the North Face of Ben Nevis...

12 April 2013

Susan Wright search team discovers large gorse fire

Mountain rescuers searching for a missing walker discovered a large wildfire. Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team members alerted firefighters then st...

10 April 2013

Search continues for missing Skye hillwalker Oliver Smith

A major search is continuing for a walker lost on the Isle of Skye. Oliver Smith failed to return to his holiday accommodation after setting out to...

09 April 2013

Search underway for Skye walker missing on Blàbheinn

A search is underway on a Hebridean island for a walker reported overdue. Police Scotland said the man was walking in the Blàbheinn area of the Sk...

07 April 2013

Father and daughter rescued from fell above Blind Tarn near Coniston

A father and his daughter were rescued after getting stuck on a snowy slope on a Lake District fell. Coniston Mountain Rescue Team was called out a...

05 April 2013

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