Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team - Cragfast Male Great Gulley

Wasdale MRT were asked to assist a 34 year old male fellwalker who had taken a wrong turning when descending from Whin Rigg, at the top of the Wasdale Screes. He had become cragfast in Great Gully in a particularly inaccessible area and local knowledge of this very difficult and unstable ground was essential to reach him. An attempt to reach him by climbing up the gulley was found to be impossible due to the wet, slippery and very unstable nature of the rock. The rescue was therefore moved to an ascent via the ramp and terraces to enter the gulley from above the cragfast walker and descend by abseil to his location. He was found to be uninjured and was lowered down the gully using 200 metres of rope before being taken back to his vehicle at Wasdale Head.
The Wasdale Screes are extremely unstable and subject to constant rockfalls. This is the second rescue in 4 weeks from almost exactly the same place for exactly the same reason; a navigational error ending up in the middle of the crags unable to go either up or down. 17 team members were directly involved in the rescue which took 5 hours. The base was closed at 10.00 p.m. ( more )

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• Wasdale
• Mountain
• Rescue
• Lake
• District
• Richard
• Warren
• Cragfast
• Great
• Gulley

[wasdalemrt]

Thanks Neil - spread the wrod - it will all help in the long run - you may also save a life.

Richard W

[Kenny4472]

These guys and their colleagues in other units do all this for free. Please support them any chance you get by giving as much as you can. You never know when you might need them! Thanks guys. Awesome, as usual.

[wasdalemrt]

Many thanks for your comments Keeny - good to have someone else valuing the work of the MRTs and encouraging other to support us - goin git for free actually enhances the reward in a strange sort of way

keep safe

Richard Warren

Chairman WMRT

[bonkers1]

Great work chaps !

[wasdalemrt]

Many thanks for viewing the video bonkers 1 - please encourage your friends to view the WMRT and post their comments

Richard

Chairman WMRT

[nks487]

Hi, I'll second bonkers and kenny - great work and all for free! I've added your videos and a link to my fellwalking blog.

Cheers,

Neil