The Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team celebrates it's 60th anniversary this week.
This week the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team are celebrating their 60th anniversary and looking back on countless lives saved and after six decades of public service.
Ryan Dollard has this report:
Jim Coyle and John Dempster have both been part of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team for more than fifty years:
Mike Park from the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the rescue service along with his colleagues.
He told ITV Border why the service is so important to the town:
This morning veterans and some of the current team will met to celebrate six decades of life saving on the fells. The team believe they have now performed more than 1,000 rescues with well over half coming in the last 15 years as walking has become increasingly popular.