rock fall Lake District Serious incident

Low Crag, Buttermere

Sunday, 15 June 1969

Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team held a remembrance service at Low Crag, Buttermere on 15 June 2019 to honour two team members killed in a rock fall during a training exercise 50 years earlier. John Thompson died at the scene and Michael Stephenson died from his injuries the following day.

Outcome: two fatalities

Responding team

Cockermouth MRT — team website ↗

Source

Rescuers gather to remember colleagues killed in crag rock fall tragedy news · timesandstar.co.uk

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