Mountain Rescue Called To Carry Exhausted Dog From England’s Highest Mountain

Despite being quite a large dog, at 33kg it was a joy to carry such a relatively lightweight casualty

Rocky’s humans made the call at 6.25pm, and 13 team members were dispatched to assist the exhausted canine, whose owners were also beginning to feel the cold. After making the dog comfortable, the team sledged him down to safety. A spokesperson for Keswick MRT commented that: ‘Despite being quite a large dog, at 33kg it was a joy to carry such a relatively lightweight casualty.’ The rescue was the team’s 42nd so far this year and took 4 hours and 18 minutes in total.

This incident isn’t the first of its kind for Lake District Mountain Rescue teams. In July 2020, members of the Wasdale team carried a 55kg St. Bernard named Daisy down from Scafell Pike after she showed signs of pain in her rear legs and refused to move. The rescue operation took a total of five hours and 16 team members.