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Almost £680,000 has been raised in just over 24 hours for the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team member injured in a callout earlier this month. Chris Lewis, 60, sustained life-changing injuries when he fell 150 metres on rough steep ground while responding to a call from wild campers at Red Screes,...

Chris Lewis fell 500ft (150m) while trying to reach two campers who broke lockdown rules.

  More than £360,000 has been raised in just hours for the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team member injured in a callout earlier this month. Chris Lewis, 60, sustained life-changing injuries when he fell 150 metres on rough steep ground while responding to a call from wild campers at Red Screes,...

BBC News Published media captionChris Lewis suffered "life-changing" injuries including multiple facial fractures A mountain rescue volunteer has said saving a colleague who suffered life-changing injuries in a fall was the worst mission of his career. He was part of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue team going to the aid of two campers from Liverpool and Leicester after one fell ill. image copyrightPatterdale Mountain Rescue Team image captionThe Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was helping two ca...

The team had been called out to help a 47-year-old man from Leicester who was camping with another man from Liverpool.

Mountain rescuer who fell 500ft trying to help lockdown flouters will be in a wheelchair for life Chris Lewis, 60, has been identified as the injured rescuer by his colleagues at Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team 16 February 2021 • 12:08pm Chris Lewis Credit: Mike Blakey/PA A mountain rescue volunteer who plunged 500ft while trying to rescue two wild campers flouting the Covid restrictions will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. A £100,000 fund raising target has been set to help Chri...

Chris Lewis, 60, fell 500ft down a steep slope on Saturdays rescue call-out  Mr Lewis suffered facial fractures and damaged his spinal cord in the steep fall A fundraising campaign has been set up to help his recovery and rehabilitation The Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was helping two Lake District campers  The two men from Leicester and Liverpool were fined for breaching lockdown 

A mountain rescue volunteer suffered permanent injuries after plunging nearly 500ft when he was called out to help campers defying lockdown.

A fundraiser to help a mountain rescue worker who suffered life-changing injuries while out on a mission has received a massive surge of responses from the public. The volunteer lifesaver injured on a rescue mission above Kirkstone Pass has now been named as Chris Lewis. Patterdale Mountain Rescue lifesaver Chris, 60, fell 150 metres from Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass on February 6. Chris and colleagues were aiding one of two wild campers who had fallen ill. The Cumbrian mountain resc...

READERS have sent their good wishes to the mountain rescue team volunteer who fell 150m on a call-out at the weekend. The member of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team suffered significant injuries during the incident in the early hours of Saturday morning. The team had been called out to an individual with chest pains, who was camping on Red Screes, above the Kirkstone Pass. A statement Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association said: "Whilst the team were making their way to...