Incident Report #19 1973
Male, 69 years, collapsed and died in Stickle Ghyll, Great Langdale. Body brought down by team.
Male, 69 years, collapsed and died in Stickle Ghyll, Great Langdale. Body brought down by team.
Male, 56 years, reported as missing on a walk from Ambleside to the Langdale area on the previous day. Search made on Loughrigg and Lingmoor.
Team members made a search of Stake Pass and Rossett Ghyll after a report was received that a man and a woman were missing on a walk to Buttermere from Langdale.
Male, 58 years, collapsed and died on Raw Fell, Great Langdale, whilst on a walk with his family. Body brought down by the team.
Call-out to the Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel. Report of three men who had been walking from Langdale to the top of Scafell Pike.
Search in Langdale for man and wife who were reported missing on a walk on the fells by their hotel proprietor. Car found by police at Wall End about 6 a.m. and the couple were found by the team on the Band, Great Langdale, about 9 a.m. They became lost when the mist descended the previous day but appeared to be very little the worse for a night on the fells.
Two students, 18 years, on a mountain expedition were suffering from slight exposure in Far Easedale, one with an injured knee. Assisted off the fell by the team.
Search by a small party of the team on Loughrigg after a 'funny' sort search of report was received to the effect that a person was missing, proved negative as anticipated at the start. (sic)
Team went to Coniston to assist the Coniston team in search for two girls missing overnight on Coniston Old Man. The girls were found the next morning after a night on the fells.
Team asked to make a search of the Troutbeck area at the request of the Patterdale team.
A woman suffered a fit on a track near the road in Little Langdale.
We were called to a man who had suffered a knee injury on Crinkle Crags. Due to the distance of the carry-off
While the previous incident was on-going we were requested assist the air ambulance
A couple were reported overdue when they became seperated from other family members.
While the previous incident was ongoing we were called to a 49-year-old male with a lower leg injury. He was treated by team members
While the previous incident was ongoing a second casualty was reported on Calf Crag, his knee having given way and being unable to walk as a result.
A casualty was reported as suffering soft tissue injuries on Crinkle Crags.
A woman, walking with a party down from Silver How, slipped and sustained a suspected lower leg fracture. She was initially assisted down by her companions, but was handed over to us for the strtecher descent.
We were requested to assist the air ambulance with loading a casualty after she slipped and suffered an lower leg injury above High Sweden Bridge.
Mother and daughter, aged 58 and 22 years from Northampton, set out on a walk from Seatoller, Borrowdale, via Langstrath, and Stake Pass, and Mickledon to The Old Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale.
Husband and wife, from Manchester, were walking down from the top of Bowfell, when husband slipped and started to fall down very slippery snow on Left Hand Gully. He fell a considerable distance, sustaining slight injuries. Wife also fell about 500 feet, sustaining fatal injuries. Husband brought down by team that evening, and conveyed to County Hospital, Kendal, and detained. Due to very extreme weather conditions the body of the wife was recovered the following morning.
25 Five students from Nottingham, set off with other people to walk from Great Langdale, to Scawfell Pike, about 10 a.m. that morning.
Man from Halifax, sustained an ankle injury on Stake Pass, and the team were alerted.
Youth, aged 16 years, from Slough, Bucks., was taken ill whilst on a course from the Y.W.C.A. Newby Bridge, near the top of Rossett Ghyll. He was brought down by the team, and conveyed by Ambulance to County Hospital, Kendal.
Man aged 52 years, from Surrey, taken ill with severe stomach pains whilst walking in the Hell Ghyll area.
Father and son, aged 9 years, from Leeds, were walking on Blake Rigg, Little Langdale, when they got into difficulties. They shouted for help,
Youth aged 15 years, from Tavistock, Devon, was taken ill, whilst on an exercise on Great Rigg Mann, Grasmere.
A husband and wife from Preston were struck by lightning in Mickledon.
An elderly woman collapsed and became briefly unconscious.
A 17-year-old girl, on a D of E training expedition, collapsed, probably from a combination of exhaustion and hypothermia.