• Contact us
  • About us
  • Digital edition
  • Online archive
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
  • News
    Arrest following violent disorder in Pooley Bridge

    Arrest following violent disorder in Pooley Bridge

    Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

    Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

    Penrith businessman bitten by dog

    Penrith businessman bitten by dog

    End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

    End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

    Farm diversification project set to blossom

    Farm diversification project set to blossom

    71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

    71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

    Appleby car park and road to close for flood work

    Appleby car park and road to close for flood work

    Road closure plans for essential bridge repairs

    Road closure plans for essential bridge repairs

    Penrith drug dealer jailed

    Penrith drug dealer jailed

  • Sport
    Teen golfer George Curry lines up with world’s best players

    Teen golfer George Curry lines up with world’s best players

    Ullswater Community College footballers make history

    Ullswater Community College footballers make history

    New management set to lead Appleby Football Club

    New management set to lead Appleby Football Club

    Success for fighting squad

    Success for fighting squad

    Penrith skipper Nicky Burns calls on team to keep winning

    Penrith skipper Nicky Burns calls on team to keep winning

    £100,000 target for new changing rooms extension

    £100,000 target for new changing rooms extension

    Medal success for Upper Eden tug-of-war team

    Medal success for Upper Eden tug-of-war team

    Eden man competes in Hyrox World Games

    Eden man competes in Hyrox World Games

    Double national triumph for Stuart Robinson

    Double national triumph for Stuart Robinson

  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Online archive
  • Buy Photos
  • Buy your paper
  • North Lakes Living
No Result
View All Result
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
  • News
    Arrest following violent disorder in Pooley Bridge

    Arrest following violent disorder in Pooley Bridge

    Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

    Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

    Penrith businessman bitten by dog

    Penrith businessman bitten by dog

    End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

    End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

    Farm diversification project set to blossom

    Farm diversification project set to blossom

    71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

    71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

    Appleby car park and road to close for flood work

    Appleby car park and road to close for flood work

    Road closure plans for essential bridge repairs

    Road closure plans for essential bridge repairs

    Penrith drug dealer jailed

    Penrith drug dealer jailed

  • Sport
    Teen golfer George Curry lines up with world’s best players

    Teen golfer George Curry lines up with world’s best players

    Ullswater Community College footballers make history

    Ullswater Community College footballers make history

    New management set to lead Appleby Football Club

    New management set to lead Appleby Football Club

    Success for fighting squad

    Success for fighting squad

    Penrith skipper Nicky Burns calls on team to keep winning

    Penrith skipper Nicky Burns calls on team to keep winning

    £100,000 target for new changing rooms extension

    £100,000 target for new changing rooms extension

    Medal success for Upper Eden tug-of-war team

    Medal success for Upper Eden tug-of-war team

    Eden man competes in Hyrox World Games

    Eden man competes in Hyrox World Games

    Double national triumph for Stuart Robinson

    Double national triumph for Stuart Robinson

  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Online archive
  • Buy Photos
  • Buy your paper
  • North Lakes Living
No Result
View All Result
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
No Result
View All Result
Home Latest

Runner who ‘died’ on fellside to tackle London Marathon for mountain rescuers who saved his life

by CWH
20 June 2022
in Latest, News
A A
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Tommy Price

A man who ‘died’ on a fellside in January is planning to run the London Marathon in October to raise money for the mountain rescue team who saved him.

Tommy Price was found by Keswick Mountain Rescue Team on Hall’s Fell, Blencathra, on January 6 and was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Newcastle.

It was touch and go for Tommy, who suffered a cardiac arrest. On arrival at the hospital, his core body temperature was 18.8 degrees Celcius – one of the lowest temperatures ever recorded.

Normal core body temperature is 37.7 degrees Celcius.

At the time, mountain rescuers reported they had been called out to a delirious runner. Only now have they revealed the full story.

Also involved in the callout was Penrith Mountain Rescue Team.

‘Delirious’ runner found with no signs of life

Picture: Keswick Mountain Rescue Team

Tommy, 26, was nearing the end of the first leg of a Bob Graham Round training run with a friend when he became unable to continue.

The temperature all day had been around freezing point with strong winds, snow and sleet showers.

His friend was unable to get a phone signal, so put Tommy into a bivvy bag and ran to get help.

When the first two mountain rescuers reached the bivvy bag, they found it empty. It was folded up with stones on top of it, but they could not find the casualty.

The team said: “They continued on and discovered the casualty a little further up the trail lying face down and with no signs of life.

“Despite the fact that to all appearances the man was lifeless, current medical guidelines and our team training tells us that a casualty is not dead until they are warm and dead. To that end the casualty is treated as if he were still alive.

“While one team member started an assessment of the casualty the other reported the situation by radio and the urgent requirement for a helicopter evacuation.

” When the initial careful assessment showed no signs of life CPR was started.”

A few minutes later, team members arrived with the medical bag and defibrillator.

‘I was clinically dead’

Picture: Keswick Mountain Rescue Team

The team said: “The pads were placed on the man’s chest and shocks given but with no effect. As more team members, and reassuringly one of the team’s doctors, arrived with various bits of kit the man’s evacuation plan was put into action, all the time with CPR in progress.

“An autopulse is a battery-powered machine that performs chest compressions allowing the casualty to be transported on a stretcher. When this arrived on scene the man was loaded onto the stretcher in preparation for the arrival of Coastguard Rescue 936 helicopter arriving from Caernarfon.

“In very blustery and showery conditions the man was expertly winched from Hall’s Fell ridge into the helicopter along with a team doctor who accompanied the casualty to A&E at the RVI Hospital in Newcastle.”

Tommy said: “I was clinically dead for between two hours 14 minutes and three hours 20 minutes and if it wasn’t for the volunteers and doctors that work for mountain rescue I wouldn’t be here today!”

When Tommy arrived at the hospital and his core temperature was discovered, a machine was used to remove his blood, warm it, oxygenate it and then recirculate it in his body.

The team added: ” In this way the casualty’s body was re-warmed gradually. There followed a number of very tense days with the casualty in an induced coma. Snippets of positive news received from the consultants in the hospital on the man’s progress were greeted with amazement from those who had seen him on the hill, incredulous that he could possibly be alive.

“After five days the man ‘woke up’ and was asking what on earth had happened as well wanting a Coke!”

Tommy, who was in intensive care for two weeks, said he had now fully recovered – apart from severe nerve issues in my hands and feet – and planned to tackle the London Marathon for Keswick Mountain Rescue Team because members saved his life.

The team added that Tommy’s temperature was one of the lowest from which someone has survived. It added: “A truly remarkable survival story and a testament to the professionalism of all involved.”

The team warned runners that although it is normal for fell runners to travel light, it hoped Tommy’s story will remind people that spare clothing a survival bag do not weigh much – but could make the difference between life and death.

To help Tommy reach his £10,000 target for Keswick Mountain Rescue Team, click here

Related Posts

Arrest following violent disorder in Pooley Bridge
Latest

Arrest following violent disorder in Pooley Bridge

26 July 2025
Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith
Latest

Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

26 July 2025
Penrith businessman bitten by dog
News

Penrith businessman bitten by dog

25 July 2025
End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years
Latest

End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

25 July 2025
Farm diversification project set to blossom
Farm and Countryside

Farm diversification project set to blossom

25 July 2025
71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome
News

71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

25 July 2025
No Result
View All Result

Stay connected

Facebook Twitter Instagram

Most popular

End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

End of road for Cumbria Classic Coaches after 28 years

25 July 2025
Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

Work starts on multi-use games area in Penrith

26 July 2025
Penrith drug dealer jailed

Penrith drug dealer jailed

22 July 2025
Penrith businessman bitten by dog

Penrith businessman bitten by dog

25 July 2025
Man who damaged Penrith’s Paddington Bear appears in court

Man who damaged Penrith’s Paddington Bear appears in court

22 July 2025
71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

71-year-old cyclist gets on his bike to Rome

25 July 2025
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Logo

33 Middlegate
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 7SY

Phone: 01768 862313
Email: news@cwherald.com

Registered in England as Barrnon Media Limited. No: 12475190
VAT registration number: 343486488

Explore

  • News
  • Sport
  • Farming
  • Property
  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Your view

Useful links

  • Contact us
  • Photosales
  • Online archive
  • Buy your paper
  • Digital edition
  • North Lakes Living
  • Advertise
  • About us

Follow us on

© Barrnon Media Limited 2025

Terms & Conditions / Privacy Policy / Cookie Policy

This website and its associated newspaper are members of the Independent Press Standards Organisation
Review Your Cart
0
Discount
Add Coupon Code
Subtotal
Total Installment Payments
Bundle Discount
Checkout

 
0
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Online archive
  • more
    • North Lakes Living
    • Buy Photos
    • Buy your paper
    • About us
    • Contact us

© 2020 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald