Photos BQQ
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sheep feeder, Newfield, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD22889601 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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sheep feeder, Newfield, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD22889601 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD22899608 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD214954 -- Farm, (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD214954 -- Farm, (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD214954 -- Farm, (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD21449558 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD21449558 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD21449558 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Hall Dunnerdale, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD21449558 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20929420 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20929420 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank (2), Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20749395 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank (2), Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20749395 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank (2), Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20749395 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank (2), Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20749395 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Kiln Bank (2), Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20749395 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Ulpha, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD20159367 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Ulpha, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD20159367 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Ulpha, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD20159367 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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stepping stones, Ulpha, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, SD20159367 -- Notice on the path leading to the crossing:- What interesting leading capitals. "Steeping Stones / Impassable /When River / Level is High / Consider an / Alternatve / Route" (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Crosby Bridge, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20069370 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Crosby Bridge, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD20069370 -- View of river. (photo 29.5.2009) |
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St John, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD19809325 -- The pedestal is inscribed "CMP / 1761" (photo 29.5.2009) |
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St John, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD19809325 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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St John, Ulpha, Cumbria, SD19809325 -- Inscribed:- "The Gift / of Wm. Danson" (photo 29.5.2009) |
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milestone, Broughton West, Cumbria, SD21928666 -- Inscribed stone:- and a bench mark. "BROUGHTON WEST / DALTON 11 MLS BARROW 14MLS / BROUGHTON ¾ML" (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Penny Bridge, Penny Bridge, Egton with Newland, Cumbria, SD31018329 -- Plaque:- "TO THE MEMORY OF BOB OLDCORN 1905-1980 RODMAKER AND FISHERMAN OF PENNYBRIDGE WHO SAT IN HIS WHEELCHAIR AND FISHED FROM THIS PLACE FOR OVER 50 YEARS" (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Appleby, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, NY68342038, 2d 29.4 W; 54d 34.6m N -- Painted dial of a longcase clock by:- George Wilson, clockmaker, Bridge Street, Appleby "George Wilson / APPPLEBY" (photo 29.5.2009) |
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limekiln, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Hining Quarry, Whitbarrow Scar, Cumbria, SD43518957 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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limekiln, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Hining Quarry, Whitbarrow Scar, Cumbria, SD43518957 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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footbridge, Underbarrow, Underbarrow and Bradleyfield, Cumbria, SD46189274 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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footbridge, Underbarrow, Underbarrow and Bradleyfield, Cumbria, SD46189274 -- (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Chapel Beck (3), Underbarrow and Bradleyfield, Cumbria, SD4693 -- At the footbridge, (photo 29.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The team at base sorting out who immediately is going to do what. At this stage the
rescue has to be handled with whoever has responded to the call out. Information is
limited; someone has been seen to fall high up on the side of Goat Scar. A first aid
team is selected to be followed by a group with crag gear, ropes, etc. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Everything comes in bags; this bag is full of radio units. The blue bag belongs with
Mobile 2. The team's vehicles are colour coded; mobile 1 red, Mobile 2 blue, Mobile
3 yellow. Nearly all equipment is coloured coded to show where it should be stored
- and ready. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The first three to set off have first aid medical supplies as well as essential ropes
etc, and a designated communications person. The Medisac, Resus bag, and Entonox bag are kept secure in their vehicle by a locked strap whose key is attached to the more securely held drugs in an onboard safe - to take the bags you remember to get the drugs. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The first aid group beginning the climb to the casualty site. The red bag on the left
is the Medisac, splints, bandages, dressings, drugs like morphine, adrenalin, and
so on; the blue bag is the Resus bag, a defribrilator, oxygen cylinder which is lightweight
carbon fibre nowadays, and airways to assist breathing; the red bag on the right is
the Entonox bag, a cylinder of mixed oxygen and a painkiller, nitrous oxide. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The casualty: reported to have slipped off a crag into a niche in the crags at the
north side of Goat Scar, bottom of Snow Cove. A 12 foot tumble. Possibly spinal injury, pain when breathing, bruising high on the nearside mid ribs, quick pulse, quick breathing, shaking. The casualty has been belayed to a safety sling round the rock above. The first aid team have contacted base with a request for rope and crag gear, already on its way, and a stretcher. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The team member on the left is the Cas carer, in charge of the casualty, interviewing
her to discover her condition and so on. The second member is supporting her head
in case of a c spine, cervical spine, injury. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Oxygen: this is an exercise and the oxygen mask was plonked on the casulaties helmet
- looking a little silly in some pictures! (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The Communications man doubling up as Scribe, keeping notes of the casualties state
and actions taken. Notes are made on a standard form which was designed by the Mountain
Rescue Council. The form acts as a prompt to gather and record relevant information,
part of which is the ABCDE check - airway, breathing, circulation, disability, environment.
The formality means the team are prompted and guided clearly in a stressful situation,
reducing the possibility of forgetting to do something essential. There were too few people on site to have a designated Cas site manager who would step back from action and manage the incident. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The Communications keeping the ground man at base informed of progress, and requesting
particular equipment. The radio mikes are fitted with a gps receiver which relays
the position of the radio unit, and presumably its user, to base, where it is displayed
on a map on a computer screen. In difficult situations a team member can be guided
to a casualty site from base. The computer keeps a log of movements which is valuable
in an inquiry. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Ropes and climbing equipment, all in bags, arriving with the next group of the team. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... rope and climbing equipment ... (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The equipment is taken up past the casualty site to a flat area just above where ropes
to lower a stretcher can be arranged, using firm rocks as belays. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The Communications man is looking after the Medisac, open in front of him. Notice
the defibrillator and Resus bag behind. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- As more of the team arrive with ropes and equipment it is possible to set up safety
line round the Cas site. The climber is paying out rope from the bag on his back, the top end belayed to a rock above, taking the rock round close below the Cas site where it will be tethered again, providing a safety line to which anybody moving about the site can belay. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Rope feeding through an abseil device, backed up by a prusic knot through which the
rope slides easily unless there is a slip when it tightens. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- More equipment arriving, including the rescue stretcher in two pieces on back frames. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The team sweatshirt:- ... clearly identifying team members on the fell, and clearly visible. As more bodies arrive a person is designated to have overall control of the incident. "MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL ENGLAND AND WALES / KENDAL MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM" (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The safety line set up round the casualty site. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The two part stretcher, going up past the casualty site to an equipment site established
a little above. The stretcher is a Bell stretcher designed and manufactured by a mountain
rescue volunteer, Pete Bell. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The casualty monitored and comforted all the while. On one finger a pulse oximeter
can just be seen. This measures the casualty's pulse and, by shining light through
the fingernail, the oxygenation of her blood. (Sorry about the helmet decoration.) (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Manoeuvring a body support round the casualty. This is a Kendrick extraction device,
back brace, neck and head support. One team member supports the casualty's head all
the time. If there were a c spine injury an injudcious movement could cause irreparable
damage. Notice the belays for the casualty team on this steep and awkward slope. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The Communications man has made contact for the Cas carer with a doctor offsite; the
casualty has a potential chest injury which is a contra indication for the use of
morphine which depresses respiration. A doctor's advice is needed. Checks of drug
allergies and current medication are also needed. The time and amount of drug administered
are carefull recorded. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- While the casualty gets immediate first aid, other team members have set up a rope
for lowering the stretcher, 150 metres of Main lower, belayed to rocks fed through
an Alpine tube, and yet more are arranging the belay for a Safety lower which will
be fed out through a prusic knot. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... the stretcher has been assembled. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... the Main lower laid out ready. Rope, carabiners, slings, and other gadgets are a constant in the whole rescue procedure, as is safety of team members moving about a very tricky site where grass is slippery and loose rocks easily sent off down hill. In the exercise rocks did escape, threatening climbers below who were warned by a shout - the rock caught or deflected if possible. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Belaying the Safety lower for the stretcher; the team member belayed to the rock where
he is working. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Carbiners, pulleys, slings. Pulleys might be needed to pull things back up if a lower
gets caught. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The giant carabiner is an Alpine tube, itself belayed from above, which helps control
paying out the main lower by the friction in the two turns. Gloves are essential when
dealing with moving rope. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Moving the stretcher to the Cas site. The team members are working on grass on a steep
slope. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Moving the stretcher to the casualty site. The team members are working on grass on
a steep slope. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The casualty is now held by the extraction device, and has a triangular bandage for
the left arm ... The drip feed is nothing of the sort - refreshing Ribena, not blood. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The stretcher in position. Everybody is belayed safely. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The stretcher in position. On the stetcher is a vacuum mattress. This is a bag full
of polystyrene beads which will mould round the casualty, the air is then pumped out
with a hand pump, and the mattress becomes a rigid support. As many hands as can be
are in position to help move the casualty onto the stretcher ... after making sure
that the casualty knows what is going to be done. The move will be made in one, to
reduce the risks to the casualty. A 'STOP' from the exercise leader. At this stage the exercise was halted. The risk of a real accident moving the casualty to the stretcher was not justifed for practice, you can practice this somewhere safe. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The body support comes, like everything else, in a bag. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The body support comes, like everything else, in a bag:- "... TELFORD EXTRACTION DEVICE ..." (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The casualty is strapped into the stretcher - now at the top of the gully which is
the start of the route down (to where she walked!) The three first aiders lead by the Cas carer stay with the casualty throughout the lower. A team member, standing back but in radio contact, is designated to control the lower, decide the route, and so on. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The casualty is tightly coccooned in the casualty bag, the head protected by the frame
at the top of the stretcher. ... ropes prepared ... (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Slings attached to the stretcher for lifting and guiding; the Main lower takes the
strain of lowering. One team member is designated Barrow boy, attached to the main
lower, stationed below the stretcher to keep it off the rock face and to guide it
down. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Starting down. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Lowering; the stretcher is held by the main lower arranged with the route in mind,
and a Safety lower. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... out of the gully onto a grassy slope ... (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The base, 500 feet below where a groundman is in radio contact with the team on the
fell. One Land Rover ambulance is fitted to take the stretcher. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... lowering (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... lowering (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The original plan for lowering assumed that rope would run out about here. A second
set of belays have been set up on rocks so that the lower could proceed. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- In fact the lower from the rocks above the casualty site was continued to where the
stretcher could be carried - with 1 metre of rope remaining. 150 metres of rope is
a lot, it's also quite heavy to carry up the fell. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Dissembling the stretcher (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Packing a shorter rope into its carry bag, yellow for Mobile 3. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Packing a shorter rope into its carry bag, red for Mobile 1. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Climbing harness, carabiners, slings, ... (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- The rescue site, roughly at the right of the dark grey rocks of Goat Scar, at the
top of Snowcove Gill. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- All the equipment has to be put away. The team member in red is roughly at the casualty site. The man on the rock above is taking down one of the belays. Getting the casualty to safety is the first priority, but equipment has to be readied for the next, real, call out. (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- ... lowering (photo 31.5.2009) |
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Goat Scar, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090531, Cumbria, NY47680709 -- Carrying the stretcher the last yards, through a gate, over the River Sprint, to base. (photo 31.5.2009) |