Mountain Rescue injured volunteer fund

Tangerinemoss

Tangerinemoss

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I know many of you love your times in the hills, and we all know if we get in trouble, there are always a group of volunteers, virtually wherever you walk, to help out if you are in trouble.

A totally unnecessary rescue up on Red Screes, where Patterdale team turned out to help two people camping when one had a suspected heart attack, resulted in a team member falling 150m and sustaining life changing injuries, including to his spine. The campers got a £200 fine, the team member is left disabled for life.

Lake District Mountain Rescue Association have set up a fund to help him with his needs ongoing, it was actually promoted on BBC breakfast yesterday.

If anyone can spare a couple of quid for this cause, the link is attached.

Thank you

MRT
 
Thanks Moss. Read about this this morning. Apparently he’s paralysed from the neck down and unlikely ever to walk again.

I know the area well and have been up Red Screes several times. It’s always good to know there is help there if it’s ever needed. All volunteers as well with little or no support from government so donations always welcome (entirely separate to this appeal).
 
I have to say the response so far has been unbelievable. When we picked up on it yesterday about 8.00 am (I follow Patterdale MRT on Twitter), it was sat at 9K. To get to this total already is brilliant, but as the guy is 60, he will need a lot of help over the years.

There has been a lot of nasty rubbish on this site recently, but I am a great believer in the generosity of the good old British Public
 
Up to nearly half a million pounds now.

As for the culprits, you can't blame them for the accident but they should be reprimanded for being there.
 
An absolutely awful situation and an unfortunate accident that could have happened at any time. Nobody is to blame and whilst these people shouldn’t have been camping, any normal Winter would see many more people out on the fells partaking in similar activities.

It’s important not to create an environment where people fear calling MR if they need help.

Thoughts to Chris and all of those risking themselves to rescue folk in the mountains.👍
 
They were clowns, not sure the Mountain Rescue was needed at all, regardless of lockdown, but to camp over is just ** ridiculous during it.

Donated.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
They were clowns, not sure the Mountain Rescue was needed at all, regardless of lockdown, but to camp over is just ** ridiculous during it.

Donated.
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FY8 👍

They rang 999 for assistance because one thought he was having a heart attack, with previous history. No one else has the skills to get up there.
 
One was from Leicester and the other from Liverpool. To go up a mountain miles away from home in poor winter conditions during a lockdown for a global pandemic is pure foolish.
 
I think we need a bit of perspective here as people are getting a bit carried away with the whole blame mentality.

Firstly, Red Screes is a popular Winter Camping spot and it’s perfectly normal for people to wild camp in winter conditions on the Lake District Fells.

Obviously, we are in a pandemic, but the reality is that doesn’t make this situation any more dangerous... There’s the tiny risk that Covid might be transmitted from one person to another, but in reality they probably couldn’t have participated in a more ‘Covid Safe’ activity...I’ll very likely be wild camping myself in a week or two.

It’s really not right to make these men, who were simply enjoying a pretty normal outdoor pursuit, a scapegoat for an unfortunate accident.

The MR guys understand the risks that are involved in the role, they are well trained and they take responsibility for their own decisions and their own safety..... Whenever any of us venture out there, we do so at our own risk...

This is a terrible accident and it’s not something that happens often, but the likelihood of an accident doesn’t increase because there is a pandemic...

The risk if we make a big deal out of this and start judging people and apportioning blame is that individuals may well die as a result of feeling too scared to make the emergency call..

Year in year our, people are injured in the mountains through:

No fault of their own
Doing something stupid
Pushing the limits of safety

etc...

This situation is no different!!
 
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