This 29 year old man was unable to continue on his walk and took shelter in deep bracken. Two of his friends went for help. He took a while to find, but warm drinks at Rydal Hall saw everyone well again.
A 26 year old blind woman being led round the Fairfield Horseshoe. collapsed, possibly as a result of a viral infection, suffering from cramps and anxiety.
She was stretchered off the fell and taken to Ambleside Health Centre.
The team was asked to convey the body of a 66 year old man to the roadside and waiting ambulance after he had collapsed and died, possibly of a heart attack.
We were requested to assist the police to recover the body of 30 year old woman that had been found in the beck. This we did. She had been missing for 20 hours.
A 39 year old woman slipped and fractured her ankle. This went down like a lead balloon with her family, who were on the first day of their walking holiday. Never mind, it's someone to stay in and write the postcards.
Two young lads, one with asthma, went for a walk on Loughrigg and failed to return. A search was being organised when they turned up, 4 hours overdue. Dad seemed a bit vague about it all.
This woman slipped on a wet footpath and sustained a depressed skull fracture. Her condition was monitored with our Propaq portable monitor and she was taken to hospital in Kendal.
Requested to transfer a woman in labour, with complications, to hospital in Kendal. AMBULANCE DUTY - Ambleside 27th. January at 15.45.
A local woman with a kidney condition and paralysed from the waist down was recovered from her car which was stuck in snow drifts, and taken home.
A 50 year old man was reported overdue by his friends after a walk. He was reported as suffering from an "illness". A search was organised, but the man turned up safe and well as Team members were being dispatched.
This 21 year old man was bivi-ing out with his mate with a few cans of beer on a last bender before going into the Army, when he slipped in his trainers and fractured his ankle. Due to alcohol consumed the informant was unable to remember the location of his mate. "He was by a tree"??!! That narrowed it down a bit ! We eventually found him, by which time cold was numbing him in place of the alcohol. We did the business with his leg and carried him down.
A 17 year old girl, part of a Duke of Edinburgh Gold training expedition from Berkshire, was reported as unconscious, near the summit of Hart Crag. Ourselves, RAF teeming MRT, and a helicopter rushed to the scene to find nothing wrong with anyone. It is highly unlikely that there ever was anything wrong with anyone. The supervisors didn't seem unduly bothered that we had wasted our time, money, and resources, to be the victims of a practical joke! It does not help the case for free Mountain Rescue and no charge for helicopters when this sort of thing happens.
Requested to assist Patterdale MRT with the evacuation of a 13 year old boy from the summit of Hart Crag, into the Rydal Valley. Taken to Ambleside Health Centre and then to Westmorland General Hospital.
Two Landrovers went to assist an ambulance stuck in snow with a sick young boy on board. They towed it out of the snow and escorted it back to the road.
We were requested to assist the Ambulance Service with a young boy who was being brought ashore to receive treatment for head injuries when he was hit by the boats boom.
A young man sustained a serious leg fracture when he hit a wall while sledging in the dark. The Ambulance crew were unable to reach him because of the snow and ice.
