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20/04/2011 - 22:07

This poster is one of three drawn by young people who had made and sold cakes to fundraise for us! It speaks volumes!!

Suntimes for Ambleside

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Sun sets today at 21:24

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People

Alec McCarthy

International secret agent for the Wigan police, allegedly.. and greeting card designer..

Retired (early) from teaching and fire & rescue and is really pleased they wanted an old chap to supplement the youth on the team. Moved to the lakes in November 2010. Loves anything active, classic motor sport and grandchildren. Looking after the adverts in the team’s annual report and team clothing.

Andy Woodhead

Andy has been involved with the team since 2009. He previously lived in the comparably arid Wiltshire and moved to the area in 2006 to make better use of his webbed feet and to get out in the mountains. He works as a Technician at the Brathay Trust, a local youth and development training charity.

Langdale/Ambleside MRT Ashely Cooper Team Chairperson

Ash Cooper

In 1986 Ash became the first person to climb all the 3000 feet peaks in Great Britain and Eire in one continuous, solo expedition. A feet that involved climbing over half a million feet of ascent and walking over 1200 miles. It has not been repeated in the intervening 26 years. The event raised £14,000 for the British Leprosy Relief Association. Ash joined the team in 1993 and has served as both team secretary and chairman. for the last ten years Ash has travelled all around the world recording the impacts of climate change and runs the world's only climate change photo agency.

Dave Almond

Dave Almond - National Trust Ranger

Dave Barrington

Former Team Leader of Rossendale and Pennine MRT. Looks after the teams merchadising and fundraising events.

Gareth Barrington

Police Officer and responsible for team radios. Swiftwater Rescue Technician

Gareth Sutton

Geoff Bowen

Founder member and retired GP

Graham Lobb

Graham left the Army in 2007 after nearly 20 years service in order to pursue a lifestyle change in the Lake District and now runs a guest house and self catering business in Windermere. Interests outside of mountain rescue include competing in mountain marathons, mountain biking and trying but failing repeatedly to teach himself to play the guitar.

Married to Janett who is a solicitor. Graham became a team member in Dec 2009 and is responsible for ensuring there are enough pies to eat at the end of a rescue. Graham is also a Swiftwater Rescue Technician.

Ian Moseley

Occupation: Commercial Manager

Having become a full team member in 2012 much of my spare time is spent on training, fundraising and call out's. Getting out onto the fell helps me unwind from the day job and the diverse bunch of guys who make up the team add to the pleasure of being a team member.

Jo Dyson

Police Officer

John Graham

Retired Maintenance Engineer. John is a founder team member with over 40 years service in moutain rescue. John also has over 30 years with Ambleside St. John Ambulance.

In his younger days he climbed up to and included hard very severe on Lake District Crags and holds a Mountain Leadership Certificate gained at Glenmore Lodge November 1972.

John has climbed many Welsh summits, Scottish Munroes and Lake District Mountains, and has walked and climbed in the French Alps, Austrian Oeztal, Italian Dolomites and the Pyrenees.

John Sayer

John Shedwick

Chef

Kat Green

Student

Kathy Grindrod

Works for Scottish Avalanche Information Service in winter, spends summers in the Lake District

Les Gordon

Consultant Anaesthetist. Helps with medical training and all things medical/technical.

Liz Mallabon

University Lecturer. Team Secretary.

Lucy Noble

Outdoor Instructor and adventurer. Swiftwater Rescue Technician

Marie Lynchey

Marie lives Ambleside, where she has completed her honours degree in Professional Outdoor Practice.

Mark Bains

Mark is Development Manager for the Grasmere-based Wordsworth Trust. He joined the team in 2007, and became Secretary and team bureaucrat in 2008 after making the mistake of admitting to owning his own pen. A letter from Mark was an event to remember and cherish. Mark is now Team Chair, but he is still using the same pen. He is also a Swiftwater Rescue Technician. When in the water he chooses a pencil.

Matt Butler

Matt works at Ambleside Climbing Wall. He became a full team member in 2013

Mike Fearon

Musician

Mo Richards MBE

Although Mo started going out on rescues with the Team in 1970, she didn't actually become a team member officially

Neil Bowness

Nick Fayers

Nick joined the team in 1993. In that time he has trained two search dogs or is it they’ve trained him. Nick spends his spare time trying to keep out of mischief at home. Rumour has it Nick also plays in a street samba band and works for NHS Cumbria in the Clinical Commissioning Group. Nick is also a swift water rescue technician.

Nick Owen

Nick joined the team in 1992 after a few years with Kendal MRT, while living in Kendal. He manages a Youth Hostel in the Langdale valley, where he also lives with his wife and teenage daughter. In any spare time he has, Nick enjoys climbing, swimming, cycling, and being rubbish at triathlons.

He has served the team in a training role, as Equipment Officer, Deputy Team Leader and has been Team Leader since 2005. He is also responsible for the team's website, being a master at copying and pasting, and where his inability to spell or proof read finds a very special home.

Nick Wright

Paramedic specialising in remote healthcare, who runs a medical training and event medic company

Olly Benson

Olly is originally from Yorkshire so first developed his passion for the fells as a young boy navigating through the mist and rain in the Dales.

Over time walking developed into fellrunning, which progressed to climbing and mountaineering in the Lake District, Scotland and the Alps.

He worked as an instructor at a centre in Switzerland and finally settled in the Lake District national park in 2003, where he worked for a development training centre in Ambleside.

Paul Burke

Police Officer and Facebook minder

Paul Davies - Support member

General Practicioner, assisting with team training and medical policies.

Phil Seddon - Support member

Paramedic. Helps with medical training.

Rob Brookes - Support member

Technical support for all things radios, GPS tracking and electronic jiggery pokery. Used to work for Boots, the Chemist.

You can always tell when Rob's been in the base, because of the solder on the carpet!

Robert Collyer

Sound and vibration engineer. Swift water rescue technician. Loves the great outdoors and interested in anything that wobbles. Robert is also vehicle officer, and is responsible for the maintenance of our fleet of Land Rovers. (He also loves to listen to the gearbox and assess the ride quality as we drive back from rescues. Very sad.)

Roger Pickup

Roger is team Treasurer and one of the Deputy Leaders.

He is also a member of Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSA) and is currently training his third search dog, Ted, a tricolour border collie.

In his spare time he is a Lancaster University microbiologist with interests transmission of infectious diseases from the environment to humans and he travels a lot.

Stephanie McDearmid

Teacher. Swiftwater Rescue Technician

Steve Pendered

Steve's story....school (Northampton), college (Nottingham), party, graduate, work, work, work, married, kids, work, work, family, work, work, work. Interspersed as much as possible with skiing and fell-walking. Bio. to 2005? – too much work!!