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rock fall Lake District Serious incident
Low Crag, Buttermere
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
Sources
- Rescuers gather to remember colleagues killed in crag rock fall tragedy
- Cockermouth rescuers mark 50th anniversary of death of members in rockfall
- Mountain rescue team members mark 56th anniversary of tragic accident
- Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team mark 50th anniversary of Low Crag training tragedy
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