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Teen airlifted to hospital after banging head in Scale Force slip

A teenager was airlifted to hospital after slipping and banging her head on a Lake District fell. The 14-year-old from Essex suffered dizziness and...

26 April 2016

Lakeland walker airlifted after suffering injuries in High Rigg fall

A walker was airlifted from a Lake District fell after suffering head and chest injuries in a fall. The 80-year-old man was walking with friends on...

23 April 2016

Keswick mountain rescuers called to support firefighters tackling Borrowdale blaze

Firefighters called on the expertise of mountain rescuers to help them during a major blaze on Lake District fells.

21 April 2016

Walker, 80, airlifted from Tryfan after fall from scrambling route

A man was airlifted from a Snowdonia mountain after suffering cuts to the head in a fall. The 80-year-old was scrambling near the summit of Tryfan ...

20 April 2016

Duke of Edinburgh's Award youth airlifted from Greenup Edge after injury

A teenager was airlifted from a Lake District fell after injuring himself. The 17-year-old youth was taking part in a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award e...

16 April 2016

Borrowdale walker suffers serious injuries in fall from Nitting Haws crag

A walker was rescued from a Lake District fell after fall from a crag. The 23-year-old woman was walking with a family group on Nitting Haws in Bor...

13 April 2016

Lakeland walker stretchered from fell after breaking ankle in Dovedale slip

A walker was stretchered from a Lake District fell after breaking his ankle. The 62-year-old was walking with his wife when he slipped in Dovedale ...

12 April 2016

Rescuers free girl from Runscar Cave after she became jammed underground

A young caver had to be rescued after getting stuck in a Yorkshire Dales system. The 12-year-old girl became physically stuck while trying to get o...

11 April 2016

Patterdale team rescues lost couple twice, on fell and in car park

A couple had to be rescued twice by a Lake District team – once on the fells and again in the car park.

10 April 2016

Second rescue on Blàbheinn as solo walker gets lost on Skye peak

Coastguard rescuers were called out to a Hebridean peak for the second time in a week after a walker got into difficulties.

25 April 2016

Four Skye walkers winched from Blàbheinn in night rescue operation

A group of walkers was winched from a ledge on a mountain on the Isle of Skye after getting into difficulties.

22 April 2016

Lakeland walkers prompt Priest's Hole search after Secret Britain TV programme

Rescuers were called out to search for two walkers who had gone to investigate a cave that was recently featured on television.

20 April 2016

Lakeland walker rescued after suffering heart problems on Buttermere path

Rescuers went to the aid of a walker who was suspected of having heart difficulties while on a Lake District route.

17 April 2016

Police flag down rescuers' vehicle to hand over lost Ingleborough walkers

Rescuers were flagged down by police after finding a pair of walkers from one of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks.

14 April 2016

Kenneth Hands named as Snowdon walker who died in fall from Crib Goch

A man who died after falling from a ridge in Snowdonia has been named. Kenneth Steven Hands, of Oldbury in the West Midlands, came off Crib Goch on...

12 April 2016

Two Duke of Edinburgh's Award groups rescued after getting lost on Bleaklow

Two groups of young walkers from the same school were rescued after getting lost in wintry weather on the Peak District’s second-highest hill.

12 April 2016

Snowdon walker dies after falling 'significant distance' from Crib Goch

A walker has died after falling from a ridge in Snowdonia. The man, in his 30s, was with two others attempting to descend Crib Goch on Saturday whe...

11 April 2016