MOUNTAIN rescue team members have urged people not to set out on hill or mountain climbs without checking the weather forecast following four major rescues on New Year's Eve.
They say climbers should not set out if severe weather is forecast, as they are risking not only their own lives, but also those of their rescuers.
In one of the more serious incidents, 21 members of Coniston Mountain Rescue Team were joined by 14 members from Millom, and 19 from Furness, to help a man and woman from Morecambe who had got lost just below the Old Man of Coniston.
The intensive search lasted for several hours, and the pair were located at 8pm.
Two men aged 24 and 25 from Ipswich were brought down from the summit of Skiddaw at Keswick by 27 members of Keswick Mountain Rescue Team, who described it as an "epic" rescue in some of the most atrocious conditions that they have encountered.
A man and woman from Lymm in Cheshire, who were staying in Grasmere, were found at around 8pm after losing the path in the Grasmere Common area.
Members of Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team conducted the search in what they said were atrocious conditions.
And Langdale and Ambleside team members were also called out to find three people on Harrison Stickle in the Langdale Pikes.
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