A trail hound became cragfast and was reported as so. A small group of team members retrieved it and returned it to its owner
A group of 5 teenagers tried to descend steep, dangerous rocks, four became cragfast and one fell some distance onto a ledge sustaining spinal injuries and a broken leg. He was stretcher lowered to safety. The others were treated for incipient exposure, then escorted off. Assisted by Kendal M.R.T. Weather conditions: Driving Rain, very cold, misty at times.
Two people lost the path on the descent from Bowfell and were unable to relocate it.
A man aged 25 from Wimbledon and a 20 year old female from Surrey became "Cragfast". Taken off rockface unharmed and escorted to safety.
The Team were called to assist a crag fast climber. Top roped off by Local Climbers, before Rescue Personnel arrived at the Crag.
A couple of 19-year-old climbers from Ambleside became stuck when they got to the top of Middlefell Buttress without torches after 4pm. They were unable to locate the way down. Their shouts for help were heard in the valley bottom. They were assisted by a number of other people in the area, who supplied them with torches, and we escorted them down.
Two climbers became cragfast when their rope got stuck while trying to abseil off their route. The fact that they only started climbing at 19:30 may have had an bearing on their situation. A team member was lowered down to them,
An unaccustomed early start for us when two men became cragfast in the gulley adjacent to Crescent Climb. They had mistaken the gulley for Jacks Rake, and had become stuck approximately 100ft up on near vertical grass. We climbed above them and then lowered team members down to retreive them.
A party of four phoned and reported themselves stuck on Steel Fell, unable to locate a way down. For some reason intermittent views of the road, through the clouds, were not enough to coax them down, so we had to go and do it the hard way.
Two 20-year-old men from Manchester became cragfast when they got on to steep ground, without torches, above Bright Beck. They were located by team members, escorted back to the valley floor and transported to their accommodation.
A 29-year-old man became cragfast on Jack’s Rake. He phoned for help and we rescued him. This coincided with an open evening with about 60 people visiting the base.
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The team was paged to respond to three men who where cragfast on Raven Crag.
The team was called to rescue a 60-year-old woman who had become cragfast on steep ground near the top of Steel Fell.
We were then requested to recover two climbers who had become cragfast on White Ghyll slabs.
Two climbers suffered a momentary lack of reason when they decided to set off to White Ghyll to do some climbing at 3.30pm without a torch! Inevitably
Two men at the campsite spotted two climbers, seemingly struggling near the top of the crag. They had made little progress for quite some time.
Three climbers became cragfast when, surprise, surprise, it went dark!
A man was reported cragfast on Jack's Rake. We went and retrieved him.
We were called to assist a man who had become cragfast while trying, perhaps mistakenly, to climb Jacks Rake.
We were called to assist a man who had become cragfast while trying, perhaps mistakenly, to climb Jacks Rake.
