Mountain Evolution

24/07/2017

25/08/2016

7 Mountain Rescue calls in 1 evening on Scafell Pike last weekend.

Not surprisingly it was quite dark on Scafell Pike at midnight last Saturday. Due to heavy rain all day there was also a large amount of water in the streams.
During a 12 hour period 7 unguided groups made 999 calls to Mountain Rescue to report that people had become separated from their team, they were lost or could not cross fast flowing streams.
If you intend to go up a mountain during bad weather and with poor visibility due to fog and darkness, then you need to be extremely good at navigation. Or hire a local guide.
Mountain Rescue are all volunteers. And surprisingly to some callers they will not necessarily get out of bed at 03.00 and come and look for you because your group has split up and you don't know where you are.

Here are some pics of the team we guided.......

11/08/2016

Well done team RBC (Royal Bank of Canada). All 21 on the summit of Ben Nevis together.

02/08/2016

Here is an article from last weekends 3 peaks team which will hopefully be helpful for people looking to take on the challenge.

Dennis Publishing has successfully raised £7,000 for CASPA. Here's the story of a mad 24 hours

01/08/2016

Well done to team Dennis. All of whom completed the 3 peaks challenge in under 24 hours this weekend. Its unusual for a whole team to complete all 3 peaks. And for a team to all do it in under 24 hours only happens maybe once a season.

26/07/2016

09/04/2016

09/02/2016

An amazing day out today doing some classic Scottish winter mountaineering. The weather forecast was not great but we were extremely lucky with calm and dry weather all day, we even had some blue skies.
Avalanche hazard was a major consideration and the usual summer route to access these peaks up the Corrie at the back of the Lost Valley was not possible due to the risk.

19/01/2016

We enjoyed a fantastic weekend with AMI, hosting their AGM. Amazing to see the centre buzzing with such an enthusiastic and higly experienced group of mountaineering instructors.
Here are a few photos posted by Plas y Brenin instructor Karl Midlane

05/11/2015

Amazing day out on Blencathra and Skiddaw above the inversion. Shorts and T-Shirts in the Lake District in November.

02/11/2015

You can donate to the team by following the linktr.ee/keswickmrt website link below.

22/10/2015

Day 1 of KMRT winter training done. Looking forward to day 2......