Scafell Pike Rescued hikers

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/25/rescued-scafell-pike-hikers-urged-pay-hotel-bill-return-head-torches

I read about those two. Absolutely despicable behaviour. They were given a 35% discount on the hotel room, they badgered the staff to give them breakfast and then they were off leaving a £130 bill unpaid. What's more, they left the crutch in the rescue vehicle.
On a different day in July, Penrith mountain rescue team found their donations box at Mardale had been vandalised and the donations stolen. The box was set in a wall so it took some effort to break into it.
These mountain rescue teams are dependent on donations to keep them running.
I despair of my fellow human beings.

Yes, it was sadly to see.
It stinks of a sense of entitlement and getting something for nothing, yet these young men appeared to be so ungrateful (and ungraceful) having just been saved from possible death.
Hopefully someone may recognise them and come forward to shame them into paying. I can imagine they'll have been bragging about their 'adventure', possibly even about how they got away without paying and the acquisition (theft) of those valuable lamps.

I imagine these scumbags are now bragging to their scummy mates on social media about how they got away with this.

Sorry Belardo, just posted the same thing.

Someone will know who they are.

Kind people have donated £100’s of pounds to the Wasdale MR since the story broke.
Easily enough to cover the hotel costs etc.
So lovely to know there are such good people around.

Regarding the selfish hikers, karma will find them.

Sago

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/25/rescued-scafell-pike-hikers-urged-pay-hotel-bill-return-head-torches

thank you, Sago !

Disgraceful behaviour.

This is disgraceful! These highly skilled volunteers give their time freely and put their own lives at risk with every rescue that they attend.
It’s is shameful to treat any enterprise this way. The hotel didn’t have to offer any discount to their two individuals and yet they did……and they were disrespected in an abhorrent way as were the rescue team!
Whoever these two are they deserve to be flogged.

An absolute disgrace.

Shouldn’t be too difficult for police to find out who they are, it’s fraud after all, but as with shoplifting and other crimes considered too small to bother themselves about it’s likely that these dine and dashers will get away with it.
Both hotels/ pubs/ restaurants/ cafes should all start asking customers to pay upfront.

As the mother of a DD who was recued from a Scottish mountain after slipping and breaking her ankle I'm shocked that anyone could be so disrespectful and ungrateful. After her recovery DD trained for a half marathon to raise money for the Lochaber mountain rescue who airlifted her to hospital in Fort William. I'm sure most people who are rescued want to repay their rescuers in some way. She asked how much her rescue had cost and it was thousands as a helicopter was involved! She will always be grateful for their professionalism and the kindness shown. She obviously paid her hotel bill when she was kicked out of the hospital later that night with nowhere else to go!
What a sad state of affairs for this to happen!

I think this pair of scum bags should be tracked down pronto and prosecuted for not paying the hotel bill.

They are probably now heroes for doing this dirty trick, amongst the their thick, feckless friends on Facebook or Snapchat or whatever

I actually think that they should be publicly humiliated

Get someone like the Daily Mail to hunt them.down.

I'd have offered them a lift - straight back to where they were rescued from -and then leave them to find their own way home.

RosiesMawagain

I'd have offered them a lift - straight back to where they were rescued from -and then leave them to find their own way home.

Top Stuff.
I loved this.
Divine retribution?

Maremia

Someone will know who they are.

The hotel should have cctv. Then plaster their faces everywhere 🤬🤬

The absolute selfishness of some people never fails to amaze me. Good to hear that other people have donated to the Mountain Rescue teams.

RosiesMawagain

I'd have offered them a lift - straight back to where they were rescued from -and then leave them to find their own way home.

Yes!

I thought it was a pity they'd been found but thought that was a bit harsh to post.

petra

Maremia

Someone will know who they are.

The hotel should have cctv. Then plaster their faces everywhere 🤬🤬

I doubt if a man on a crutch, had travelled far from where he acquired it, which was probably an NHS A and E department in NW England. .
Mountain Rescue know which leg was injured and possibly he told them what the injury was and when/how he got it.. The hotel can describe his age, looks, size.

I'll be pretty surprised if the NHS can't trace this patient's ID

GDPR means that their details cannot be given out.

It’s the same here with people (and sometimes their dogs) who walk out on beaches and marshes too far and get cut off by the tides. They ignore all the warning signs and find they are trapped by rapidly swirling tides.

Last summer was a record year for such idiots getting stranded and having to get rescued. The rescues are always reported but I have only once seen one man thanking them and saying he has learned his lesson and would be making a donation to RNLI.

Maremia

Someone will know who they are.

And as they called out Mountain Rescue, it might be possible to trace them from their mobile number.

Fallingstar

Sorry Belardo, just posted the same thing.

No need to apologise, Fallingstar.
I'm sure many feel the same way.