Mo Richards MBE
Although Mo started going out on rescues with the Team in 1970, she didn't actually become a team member officially
Nick Owen MBE
Nick joined the team in 1992 after a few years with Kendal MRT, while living in Kendal. He manages a hostel in the Langdale valley.
He has served the team in a training role, as Equipment Officer, Deputy Team Leader and was Team Leader between 2007 and 2022 before handing over to Olly. 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.
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.
Graham became a team member in Dec 2009 and also serves as Equipment Officer. Graham is also a Swiftwater Rescue Technician.
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.
Mobile 4
This is a general purpose people carrier, transporting up to 7 team members, search dogs and any additional equipment that may be needed.
Nick Wright
Paramedic specialising in remote healthcare, who runs a medical training and event medic company. Training Office and Deputy Team Leader
Olly Benson
Olly has been a member of the team since 2006 and became the 9th team leader, in March 2023. During his time in mountain rescue, he worked a mountain rescue search dog, called Kitt, for six years, being called to many searches throughout the Lake District, Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Notably, Olly and Kitt assisted with the search for the victims of the Cumbria Shootings, in 2010.
Outside mountain rescue, Olly spent over a decade working as a registered paramedic, and then as a Senior Paramedic Team Leader, for the Northwest Ambulance Service, before joining the University of Cumbria, where he continues to work as a Senior Lecturer on the Paramedic Degree Apprenticeship Programme.
Mobile 3
This is the most modified of our vehicles, fitted with a raised roof and a conventional ambulance stretcher inside.
It is built on the standard chassis, and capable of transporting 4 team members plus a casualty on the stretcher, with room to work on them if needed.
Carrying only medical equipment, it is usually the second vehicle to attend an incident.
Mobile 1 and 2
Mobiles 1 and 2 are our identically equipped 1st response vehicles. They carry up to 5 team members and a full compliment of medical and rescue kit.
They are capable of carrying a casualty inside by mounting a Bell stretcher on a specially made frame. The vehicles are very capable both on and off road, with diff-locks and traction control making it ideal for the long off road tracks we use and more than capable of dealing with the local roads in winter!
Both are '58 registered and have been adapted for our purposed by Crake International and Hadwins of Torver.
