Incidents
Peel Crag, Hadrian’s Wall (24)
Incident Type: Rescue
North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves were activated by Northumbria Police for a walker wh...
Cheviot Hills (23)
Incident Type: Advice/Support
On Bank Holiday Monday evening our duty controller received a call from Northumbria Police. A...
Hazely Law (22)
Incident Type: Rescue
A couple had walked from Alwinton up onto the Border Ridge via The Street and then on towards Windy G...
Pegswood (21)
Incident Type: Rescue
Whilst technical rope rescue training at our base in Pegswood, Team members witnessed an accident on ...
Hadrian’s Wall, near Steel Rigg (20)
Incident Type: Rescue
On Monday afternoon a women fell and sustained a lower leg injury whilst walking along Hadrian’s Wa...
Holystone (19)
Incident Type: Rescue
The North East Ambulance Service received a 999 call from two walkers on Holystone Common. One of the...
Blakehopeburnhaugh (18)
Incident Type: Search
Late afternoon on Monday, Northumbria Police activated North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselv...
Blyth (17)
Incident Type: Advice/support
Last Sunday afternoon Northumbria Police recontacted Mountain Rescue about the high risk miss...
Detchant Wood (16)
Incident Type: Rescue
A male who was part of a shooting party had sustained a leg injury in a fall in Detchant Wood, near B...
Sycamore Gap (14)
Incident Type: Rescue
As Mountain Rescue resources were responding to a search incident in the Blyth area, the North East A...
Blyth (13 + 15)
Incident Type: Search
Northumbria Police requested Mountain Rescue’s support for a high risk missing person in the Blyth ...
South Hylton (12)
Advice and support was provided to Northumbria Police by our duty controller for a high risk missing person in the South Hylton area of Sunderland....
The Cheviot (11)
As the previous incident was drawing to a close, Mountain Rescue were activated for a second time. A group of four young men, who were part of larg...
The Belling, Kielder Water (10)
A family had been walking around the Belling peninsula near to the dam at Kielder Water when the bank at the edge of water collapsed. One of the pa...
South Shields (9)
On Monday morning North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves deployed to support Northumbria Police with a search of Temple Park in South Shi...
Out of Area (8)
Late on Sunday evening, our Mountain Rescue Duty Controller was contacted again by Northumbria Police regarding an individual lost on a mountain ou...
Gateshead (7)
Northumbria Police contacted our Mountain Rescue Duty Controller on Saturday afternoon to discuss potential support for a high risk missing person....
Thropton (6)
North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves responded to a very unfortunate incident on Wednesday morning. As Storm Jocelyn passed through our...
Black Hag, Pennine Way (5)
In a repeat of Thursday’s incident, a Spine Race competitor collapsed at the low and high level split of the Pennine Way between The Schil and Bl...
Low Bleakhope, Breamish Valley (4)
Northumbria Police informed Mountain Rescue that there was a second incident which potentially required our services – a road traffic collisi...
Chainley Burn, near Vindolanda (3)
The North East Ambulance Service requested Mountain Rescue’s assistance for a walker who had fallen in the Chainley Burn valley to the south of V...
Milestone Edge, Pennine Way (2)
A competitor in the Montane Spine Race collapsed on a relatively exposed section of the Pennine Way, north of Bellingham late on Friday night. A re...
Pennine Way, near Back Hag (1)
Two members of the Team who had swapped their ‘red jackets’ to be part of the Spine Safety Team alerted our Team Leader of a potential incident...
Kielder (77)
As Storm Gerrit continued to bring strong winds and heavy rain to Northumberland, the second of two requests for stranded vehicles was received. No...
Kielder (76)
A family of four were trapped in their vehicle by flood waters in the Kielder area. The 999 call initially received by Police Scotland had dropped ...