Dialogue across the Mountains
A British Swiss Affair - 17April 2002 to 30 April 2003
Dialogue Across Mountains
A British-Swiss Affair
(Last
update 21/5/03)
Activities for 2003 - (click here)
listed below are the events from 2002 and background on the Festival
Activities From 2002 Calendar
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SARDA dog training weekend |
Wasdale MRT Gosforth Show
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Wasdale MRT Kern Knotts Auction |
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Millom's Day
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Tourism Minister Visits IYM
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Official Opening at Rheged |
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Cumbria Community Foundation have generously awarded £5,000 towards the costs of the mountain rescue teams involvement - this means roughly £400 to £900 to those teams who have agreed to participate. Additional funding of £5,000 now been agreed to ensure that the mountain rescue programme can be met in full. Further funding has been granted by the North Western Development Agency to cover funding of mountain festival activities up to 31 March 2003 |
The Lake District
mountain rescue teams have been invited to participate in a major festival
event this year to celebrate 2002 as the United Nations International Year of
the Mountains. The link is with
Switzerland and the Swiss Embassy in London and Manchester are working in
partnership with British organisations (government, local business and rescue)
to pull together a programme for next year.
Co-ordination in the Lake District is by David Penlington,
British/Swiss Alpine Club (ABMSAC) and is supported by Business Link who see
this as a golden opportunity to put Cumbria back on it’s feet following the
Foot and Mouth crisis.
For more info on International Year of the Mountain, see article in Summit Magazine
What’s
in it for Cumbria?
What’s
in it for Lake District Mountain Rescue?
Opportunity to open our bases to international and local tourism, raise mountain rescue awareness, raise funds - with the help of artefacts, displays, videos and speakers from Swiss rescue organisations. Also see history of climbing in the Lakes
To
participate in this major festival which will help the recovery of Cumbrian
small businesses and tourism.
Key Exhibition Centres
The five main centres are
Penrith - Rheged Centre - 17th April 2002 (Launch)
Keswick Museum - 1st July - 31st July 2002
Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 17th April - 1st December 2002
Coniston Ruskin museum - 16th March - 3rd November 2002
Ambleside Museum - dates awaited
Sub Centres
Wasdale Head Hotel - Old Dungeon Gyll - Blackwell Museum - Lakeland Sheep and Wool Centre - Brockhole Centre - Mountain Rescue centres as detailed in the table below
plus see first
mountain rescue and first
ascent of Napes Needle 
For more details contact:
Richard Warren
Assistant Secretary, LDSAMRA
Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association
01946 62176
For photographs of the opening
at Rheged see ...............
(for photos of the MRT events follow the MRT links)
For the full IYM programme see.............................
For the individual
mountain rescue team detailed programmes and photos see below
| Cockermouth MRT | COMRU | Coniston MRT | Kendall MRT |
| Kirkby Stephen MRT | Langdale MRT | Millom FRT | Patterdale MRT |
| SARDA Dogs | Wasdale MRT |
For the mountain rescue overview see table below
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Mountain RescueTeam
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Team Contact |
Proposed Involvement |
Possible dates |
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Cockermouth MRT
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Chris Abbot 01946 861963 Tel &Fax
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Exhibition at Lakeland Sheep and Wool centre ·
Sea and Mountain Rescue weekend at Buttermere / RNLI (2 day event in Sept) · Open base monthly during selected weeks |
Through summer tbc
13/15 September Tue 2-4 pm
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| Coniston MRT |
Graham Sockett 01539 441745 |
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Exhibition in Base with WA Poucher original
slides ·
Links with Ruskin Museum · Possible links with Donald Campbell museum
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Cumbrian Ore Mines Rescue Unit COMRU
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Chris Jones
01422 844394
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Guided Mine visit | Summer 2002 |
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Furness MRT
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Will be involved jointly with
Millom FSRT centred at Broughton-in-Furness |
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| Kendal MSRT |
Keith Pitman Liz Parkes 01539 729323
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Exhibition in Base with links to A Wainwright original
material ·
Base open at a number of weekends. ·
Will support Brockhole events
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Throughout the summer |
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Keswick MRT
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Will remain in support of
other teams |
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Summer
13 June 2002 |
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Kirkby Stephen SMRT
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Arthur Littlefair
01768 37216 arthur@littlefair1.freeserve.co.uk
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Sunday 9th June |
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Langdale /Ambleside MRT
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Steve Haltom
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Open days at the Base ·
Support events at Brockhole ·
Work with RAF on displays
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Throughout the summer |
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Millom FRT
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Tracy Binks
01229 716952
updates on their event see........
see the Kepplewray site ...
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· Events will be focused at Victory Hall Broughton · Crag rescue display on the fire station tower. see photos of the day · Joint displays / demos with Kepplewray charity for disabled outdoor activities ·
Activities for people of all abilities and disabilities at
The · Everything Kepplewray do is for able bodied and disabled alike "access for all". |
Selected weekends throughout the summer
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| Patterdale MRT |
John Williams 01768 890334
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Open days with children activities ·
Setting up museum with photos and equipment ·
Educational video |
Weekends throughout the summer
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Penrith MRT
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Not currently involved | ||
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SARDA (Lakes)
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Mick Guy
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4 day course in Coniston to be watched by public. Run as an
assessment. ·
Single days x 3 weekends spread over the county |
October Spread over the summer
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Wasdale MRT
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Richard Warren 01946 62176
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Opening Base to public ·
Links with Wasdale Head Hotel events e.g. reconstruction
Napes Needle
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Wasdale Show
· Navigation events in Wasdale |
Events throughout the year |
| RAF Boulmer |
Flt. Lt. Mike Holman MRT Liaison, RAF Boulmer 01665 604760 x 7461
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Available to provide training sessions and displays for
MRT’s linked to the years programme. ·
Available for a Brockhole session. ·
Available for a Wasdale event · Available for support to Millom/Furness |
negotiable
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| RAF Leeming MRT |
Jimmy Clitheroe ask for 95851 ext. 7588
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Available to support LDSAMRA MRT events. ·
Crashed aircraft presentations ·
History of RAF Rescue |
Throughout summer |
| LDSAMRA |
Richard Warren 01946 62176
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Support to the teams across county |
From now until October 2002 |