Lake District Rescue
2024 · Documentary
From falls on the fells to mountainside mishaps, the Lake District Mountain Rescue Association head out to bring home the lost, injured and stricken.
Episodes
1. Episode 147m · The Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team help a man with a dislocated shoulder at Eskdale Pools. Stranded miles from the nearest road, the team face the challenge of how to get him to hospital.
2. Episode 247m · The Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team help a man with a dislocated shoulder at Eskdale Pools. Stranded miles from the nearest road, the team face the challenge of how to get him to hospital.
3. Episode 347m · The Coniston Mountain Team help a paraglider who's crash-landed on Great How Crag. And a man's gone missing around the flooded tunnels of a disused quarry at Hodge Close.
4. Episode 447m · Keswick Mountain Rescue team are called to help a fallen scrambler with head and neck injuries, who's been precariously lodged at the edge of a waterfall for hoursMore Like This
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