The team led the runner down the path on the east side of Nethermost Pike
A competitor on a Lakeland challenge had to be rescued after getting lost on the Helvellyn range.
The man called for help while taking part in a 100km event yesterday and told emergency services he was lost near Grisedale.
A spokesperson for Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said: “This led to the callout being circulated round three other teams before Patterdale team used the Sarloc system to establish that he was in fact on our side of Helvellyn above St John’s Church, Wythburn.”
Four team members set out shortly after 8pm to find the man and bring him back down to the road near Thirlmere so he could be taken back to the event’s headquarters near Windermere.
The Keswick MRT spokesperson said: “It did not help that the phone number the competitor had been given to contact the organisers in the event of mishap was incorrect.
“This meant further work for the team in trying to track down contact details.”
Nine volunteer team members were involved in the rescue, which took 2¼ hours.
The team had earlier been called out after a walker slipped on Blencathra and broke her ankle.
The 57-year-old was with her husband on zigzags on the lower slopes of Scales Fell above Mousthwaite Combe when she slipped on gravel.
Team members set off to help the walker and in the meantime the crew of a Sea King helicopter from RAF Leconfield in east Yorkshire, which was in the area for a training exercise, offered to help in the rescue.
A Keswick MRT spokesperson said: “They set down a paramedic who assessed the casualty, and then winched the lady aboard for transport to the West Cumberland Hospital.
“The team then assisted her husband down to retrieve their car from the Blencathra Centre.”
The rescue involved 17 team members.
Katie
16 September 2013It can't be hard to give out the correct phone number. I seem to remember getting a contact number but also leaving our contact numbers when I did the Oggie 8 several years ago to raise money for Ogwen Valley MRT - but they must know how to do it properly.
Sheepy
17 September 2013If you're upto doing the 100km challenge then you surely shouldn't be getting lost. If you do get lost then sort yourself out and find a path that leads down. Most of the paths in the lakes are like motorways and can't be missed. If you end up in the wrong valley then tough. Catch a bus, ring a taxi, thumb a lift or walk along the road. Whichever way just sort yourself out and learn from your mistakes.
In my eyes MRT are there for emergencies, to rescue people who have had an accident or are in an imminent life threatening situation not to act as tour guides for the intellectually challenged or terminally stupid.
All we see is story after story of people ringing MRT because they are lost. Would people ring the Police if they got lost driving their car and expect them to come and show them the way. If in doubt get off the hill by following a clear path,when at a lower altitude find out where you are and then sort yourself out. Stop bothering people who have more important things to do.
Mike
18 September 2013Sheepy - you just made one of the biggest errors of assumption these runners make. That because they frequently train and are physically up to big routes, they are also capable of navigating them . Most ultra runners indeed many fellrunners are a liability to themselves and others because they choose to follow those in front, and when they get detached they have no idea where they are so navigation becomes difficult, not least because they rarely practice it. Amazed that in this day and age he/she had no GPS.