Want to know more about mountain rescue? Here are the best places to read, watch and keep up to date, from the national magazine to live news and mountain weather forecasts.
Latest mountain rescue news
Headlines from Mountain Rescue England and Wales, updated through the day.
- Opinion: Why we need more signposting in Britain’s hills and mountains4 November 2026
- Man suffers injuries after quad bike crash in mid Wales4 November 2026
- Mountain rescue called after walker had seizure near Pen y Fan4 November 2026
- Mountain rescue called to Holmfirth as women needs evacuation2 November 2026
- Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte Have Twinning Moment in Royally Sweet Family Photo2 November 2026
- Dales rescue team helps ambulance reach remote patient29 October 2026
More from MREW news, and from grough, which covers mountain rescue across Britain.
From our team
- Night Training on Whitwell Moor: Search and Rescue Insights
- October Training Highlights: Mountain Rescue Team’s Progress
- Incident 2026-68: Mountain biker injured, Wharncliffe Woods
- Incident 2026-67: Mountain biker injured, Greno Woods
Mountain Rescue magazine
Mountain Rescue is the national magazine of Mountain Rescue England and Wales, published four times a year with rescue stories, kit, training and casualty care from teams across the country. Every issue is free to read online. You can also subscribe to the printed magazine.
2003 2 issues
2002 2 issues
2001 2 issues
Issues 1 to 7 were published as MRC News. All issues are hosted by Mountain Rescue England and Wales. This list updates itself when a new issue comes out.
Reports and statistics
- MREW Annual Reviews: the year in mountain rescue across England and Wales, with national incident figures.
- MREW incident statistics: annual incident reports going back to 1995.
- The history of mountain rescue in England and Wales.
- Our incident statistics and incident log: how often we are called out, where and why.
- Annual reports and accounts for our team, the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation and MREW.
- Our history, from the Stocksbridge hill rescue team of 1964.
Before you go: forecasts and skills
Sources we recommend when planning a day on the hill.
- Mountain Weather Information Service: Peak District: a forecast written for hill walkers, including the wind on the tops.
- Met Office mountain forecast: Peak District.
- AdventureSmart UK: three simple questions to ask yourself before you head out.
- OS GetOutside: route ideas and guides to map reading.
- British Mountaineering Council: skills guides for hill walkers and climbers.
- Mountain Training: navigation and hill walking courses, and how to find a qualified leader.
- Peak District National Park: access, moorland fire risk and visitor information.
- Our own guides: what to bring, how to give your exact location and what to do in an emergency.
The wider rescue family
- Mountain Rescue England and Wales: the national body for mountain rescue teams in England and Wales.
- Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation: our region’s seven teams, including Edale and Buxton. See them all on our area page.
- Scottish Mountain Rescue.
- Lowland Rescue: volunteer search teams for missing people in towns and countryside.
- National Search and Rescue Dog Association.
- RNLI: lifeboats and lifeguards.
Follow the news yourself
RSS feeds
An RSS feed sends new articles straight to a feed reader app such as Feedly, Inoreader or NetNewsWire, or to Microsoft Outlook. Copy a link below and add it to your reader.
- Our news and incidents:
https://woodheadmrt.org/feed/ - Our incidents only:
https://woodheadmrt.org/category/callouts/feed/ - MREW news:
https://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/news/feed/ - MREW blog:
https://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/blog/feed/ - MREW Annual Reviews:
https://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/annual_review/feed/
Google Alerts
Google Alerts emails you when something new about a subject appears online. It is free and takes a minute to set up.
- Go to google.com/alerts and sign in with a Google account.
- Type what you want to follow, for example
"Woodhead Mountain Rescue","mountain rescue" "Peak District"or"Longdendale" rescue. Quotation marks keep words together. - Choose Show options to pick how often you hear (as it happens, once a day or once a week), the sources, the region (United Kingdom) and how many results.
- Under Deliver to, choose your email address, or RSS feed to read alerts in a feed reader.
- Select Create alert. You can change or delete it at any time from the same page.
Please remember that early news reports about a rescue are not always accurate, and the people involved may be reading. Our own incident reports never name or identify anyone.