Border Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team

A 65-year-old man had to be rescued by helicopter after experiencing severe chest pains while taking a walk in Cockermouth.

The Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team airlifted the walker from Whiteside/Hopegill Head ridge above Lanthwaite Green to Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, after rescue workers arrived at the scene around 1.55pm on Wednesday, 31st May.

A Coastguard S92 rescue helicopter was used.

The man is currently being treated and monitored at the hospital.

Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called this morning (Monday August 1) to a woman who had slipped whilst descending from Haystacks towards Scarth Gap and injured her ankle.

The team attended along with the Great North Air Ambulance.

The 49-year-old casualty from Teesside was treated at the scene by team members and air ambulance doctors and carried to the helicopter.

She was flown to the Cumberland Infirmary for further treatment.

A 45-year-old woman has been airlifted to hospital after falling on Red Pike in Buttermere.

Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team were called out at 5.50pm on Tuesday after the woman fell and injured her back.

She was airlifted to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle for further assessment and treatment.

A 68-year-old woman has been rescued after collapsing near Cockermouth.

It happened at Setmurthy Wood. She was treated by an ambulance paramedic at the scene. Cockermouth Mountaun Rescue Team was also called out and helped to transfer her to the ambulance.

Police and mountain rescue teams are trying to find a missing man in the Buttermere area.

A major search is underway, and it's thought the man hasn't been seen since Wednesday.

Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team were called to help a 74-year-old man at Wind Gap, in Ennerdale.

The man had a head injury and was being treated by a passing doctor.

When the team arrived they lowered him on a stretcher into Wind Gap Cove, and he was then transferred by S92 Helicopter to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness.

It's only the second time the team has worked with the new S92 Coastguard helicopter.

Mountain rescue teams were called yesterday to help find a missing paraglider in the Buttermere area. Sadly a body was recovered on Fleetwith Pike at 5am.

The paraglider is thought be a 38 year-old man from Milliom in west Cumbria.

Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team rescued a 30-year-old mountain biker at around 2pm today.

The woman had fallen from her bike and suffered chest and shoulder injuries.

It happened at Setmurthy Wood, near Cockermouth.

The team treated the casualty, and then moved her to a nearby field, where she was airlifted to the Cumberland Infirmary.

Fifteen team members attended, and the call out lasted around two hours.

A 24-year-old woman has died after falling from Haystacks in the Lake District.

Cumbria Police and Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team were called to reports that a woman had fallen at 4pm on Wednesday 1st July.

An RAF Sea King helicopter and an air ambulance attended to assist in the rescue.

The woman was flown to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle where she was pronounced dead after she sustained fatal head injuries.

She has been named as as Victoria Harris, aged 24, from the Manchester area.

During the same incident another woman was also winched to safety by the RAF helicopter but was uninjured.