Wansfell

The Team went to the assistance of a 63 year old female from Cheshire who slipped on very wet fellside and suffered a fracture of her lower leg.

A 71 year old female from High Wycombe slipped on the wet fellside and broke her left leg. She was carried on a stretcher, then by Team's Land Rover / ambulance to a Doctor in Ambleside. Footnote:This lady had smooth sol shoes which could have contributed to her fall. Weather conditions: DRY, CLEAR, WARM, WET UNDERFOOT

A 70 year old Stockport woman slipped and fell on wet fellside on Wansfell, Ambleside and sustained a fracture of the left leg. Team carried her down the fell and then by Ambulance to Kendal Hospital.
Footnote: Once again, the fellside in wet and very dry weather can be just as dangerous as snow and ice.

We were called to attend a woman with an ankle injury. She was walking with her husband. They had passed a grid reference to the Police which put them on Nanny Lane, Troutbeck. The team was dispatched to sort her out. Our first response group couldn't find them. We spoke them again and they admitted that they might not have been quite were they had initially told us. Further questioning located them on the Ambleside side of Wansfell. A second team was dispatched, they were located, and the woman's injury was treated. Grid references and numbers are such a tricky business.

A 10-year-old boy became separated from his parents. A search was organised, and he was quickly located and reunited with his parents.
 

A 65 year-old woman slipped and sustained a suspected lower leg fracture. She was treated at the scene and carried down on our stretcher.
 

A woman slipped and sustained an arm fracture when she landed while descending from Wansfell. She was treated at the scene and evacuated with help form the North West Air Ambulance.
 

A man in his 50s slipped and dislocated his ankle near the summit.

A 26-year-old woman slipped and sustained an ankle fracture. She was treated, given pain relief and evacuated.

A competitor in the annual Wansfell Race sustained a suspected left ankle fracture while descending.

We were called to help a couple lost on Wansfell.

A woman slipped and sustained a suspected ankle fracture.

A 75-year-old man suffered a head injury after a fall while descending Wansfell Pike.

A woman sustained a wrist injury when she slipped near the summit of Wansfell.
 

A man and his partner phoned for help when they were unable to locate the way down from Baystone, Wansfell. There's little more can be said.
 

A man and a boy became cragfast on a steep, bracken-covered slope after losing the way down from Wansfell. They were from overseas and had a disproportionate fear of the local wildlife, which is much less dangerous and aggressive than they imagined.
 

Small party of team searched Wansfell after a report was received by police that flares and torch lights had been seen.

60 year old man slipped on wet fellside and fractured his leg. Luckily we're "getting the hang" of this sort of thing.
                     

24 year old woman slipped on wet fellside and fractured her ankle.

A woman sustained a lower leg injury when she slipped on wet ground just below the summit of Wansfell. She was treated by team members and evacuated to the valley for onward transport to hospital

A woman was reported overdue when she failed to return home at the expected time. There was concern for her welfare, so a search was organised. SARDA were called as well, and she was located around midnight, by a dog handler, with a minor leg injury. She was returned home.

A 54-year-old male slipped and sustained a lower leg injury. He was treated by team members then evacuated to an ambulance waiting at the roadside.

Walkers reported a sheep stuck in a bog on Wansfell. Two team members, walking in the area, investigated and found a sheep stuck in a bog. Equipment was brought up to allow people to get on to the bog surface without sinking, and the sheep was hauled out. It failed to express any noticeable gratitude, and ran of followed by its hungry lamb.