Volunteers from mountain rescue teams from across the Lake District were involved in a two-day search for an exhausted walker.
Penrith Mountain Rescue Team was called at around 8pm on Tuesday, November 5 about a solo walker who had become exhausted and unable to continue on his walk in the North Pennines.
He was able to give a rough description of the route he had taken following the Pennine Way but the team were unable to get an accurate location.
The team managed to triangulate his phone signal, which gave them a 10km square search area.
The team said: “Team members headed into the North Pennines and searched the fellside and fell tops, using the route description provided by the casualty to try and reduce the size of the area to be searched, although this was hampered by thick cloud which reduced visibility to less than 5m at times.”
Volunteers from Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team and the search dog team were called out to help with the search overnight.
The team added: “By 5am teams had been withdrawn from the hill and more support from across the region had been requested.”
The search resumed at dawn, with more search dogs, drones, and a Coastguard helicopter.
The team added: “Persistent low cloud restricted the ability of searchers still. Fortunately for the walker it had been an unseasonably mild and still night, so he had been able to stay warm and was able to continue walking once it was light.
“After several hours of walking, he came across a vehicle track and having updated the team was picked up shortly afterwards by members of a search party.
“He was checked over by a paramedic from Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team and was taken to a local B&B to recover.”
Twenty-two Penrith team members plus 25 others from Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team, Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team, Coniston Mountain Rescue Team, Keswick Mountain Rescue Team, Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team, Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team, Kendal Mountain Search & Rescue Team and Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team took part in the search, as did five search dogs from LDMRSDA and SARDA.
