2024 Incidents

(Note: incidents given with a number in brackets are officially reportable, while the others relate to standbys, event cover and incidents outside the team area at which team members were present)

(7) 22nd March, 4 hours
The team assisted two teenage girls by Hoff Beck just south of Appleby. One of the girls had fallen in the water injuring her leg. Both were very cold, but after treatment, both were eventually able to walk out with assistance to the road, to be checked over by ambulance crew. 11 team members were involved.

(6) 29th February, 16 hours
A request for assistance was received from Wasdale MRT for a walker missing on Scafell Pike. 2 KSMRT members attended, helping with the search and eventual extraction of the missing walker from Piers Gill. 3 other KSMRT members were involved with the Lake District wide co-ordination of resources.

(5) 24th February, 1 hour
A report of two walkers stuck on Baugh Fell led to 11 team members being assigned to a wide scale search of the area, with assistance also requested from Kendal MRT. However further clarification from the informant, who had been out of phone signal, meant that the real search area was in the Langdales in the Lake District. The callout was passed to Langdale Ambleside MRT.

(4) 22nd February, 15 mins
The team was called to assist with the search for a dog missing at Cautley Spout, but was stood down when the dog turned up.

(3) 19th February, 3 hours
Kendal MRT asked for assistance with the extraction of a walker in her 70s with an injured ankle in Borrowdale, near Tebay. 5 KSMRT team members attended the scene, carrying in a stretcher and helping to bring the casualty out. She was taken to her car and her companions were able to take her to hospital for treatment.

(2) 17th February, 4 hours
Cumbria Police asked the team to help with the search for a 13 year old who had gone missing late at night near Smardale. While the police operated drones and deployed search dogs, 12 KSMRT members searched woodland areas in the vicinity. The missing youngster was reported safe by a relative the following day.

(1) 9th February, 6 hours
Members of the team on winter skills training in the Scottish Highlands had to rescue one of their own, with the assistance of Cairngorm MRT. The team member broke an ankle while returning from Coire an t-Sneachda in the Cairngorms, a regular training area for snow and ice training. The extraction by stretcher was hampered by extreme weather conditions and difficult terrain.

1st January, 9 hours total
A callout assisting Penrith MRT starting late on New Year’s Eve continued into the early hours of the 1st January. The search for the missing fell runner was called off during the night and sadly his body was found later that day. 13 KSMRT members were involved.