Hikers stiff hotel on unpaid bill after treacherous 7-hour mountain rescue operation, nonprofit says

Two hikers rescued aft becoming mislaid portion attempting to ascent England’s highest upland during "treacherous wintertime conditions" stiffed a edifice they were enactment up successful for the nighttime aft the seven-hour operation, according to the nonprofit liable for redeeming them.

"We debar judging those we rescue but conflict to recognize erstwhile the rescued instrumentality vantage of hospitality provided by our supporters successful the valley," the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team wrote successful a Facebook station past week, explaining that aft the 2 men were safely rescued from Scafell Pike successful an "avoidable" concern connected Dec. 29, the manager of the Wasdale Head Inn "kindly agreed to enactment up, springiness them snacks and a room."

Scafell Pike has an elevation of 3,200 feet.

Although the men were fixed a discounted country complaint of 35%, which they agreed to wage astatine the clip but said their wealth wasn't connected them, they near without settling their bill, the rescue nonprofit claimed, adding that the enactment felt compelled to wage it for them.

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Rescuers with the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team going up Scafell Pike connected Dec. 29. (Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team)

"Disappointingly, successful the greeting they offered nary acknowledgment for the efforts of the hotel, asked for further reductions to the cost, pushed hard for a meal and asked if they could put transport to get them retired of the valley," the nonprofit alleged. "The reply was, atrocious nary extras and delight transportation wealth erstwhile you can."

The nonprofit besides said the men haven’t returned 2 flashlights missing from the squad aft the rescue.

In addition, they said the telephone fig fixed to the edifice manager to interaction the men didn’t work.

The nonprofit said the men inactive haven’t paid backmost the $178 bill, though the station generated truthful overmuch bully volition that bully Samaritans person fixed much wealth than owed to the inn, which the radical said, "will spell straight towards the team’s operational costs which are successful excess of £100,000 annually."

Scafell Pike successful 2024.  (protected. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

The squad said they had tried contacting the men astir the wealth and the flashlights and to instrumentality a crutch that 1 of the men near successful 1 of the team’s vehicles, but hadn’t heard back.

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"This station volition hopefully punctual the 2 young males to settee their debt," the squad wrote, adding that they near a QR connected the station for easiness of payment. "They mightiness besides bespeak connected the kindness they were offered that nighttime by the unit astatine the Wasdale Head Inn and our ain unpaid squad pursuing their eventful sojourn to Cumbria."

The squad concluded the station by explaining that their volunteers are unpaid, and "we ne'er complaint but arsenic donations are ever appreciated. Especially to assistance lend to our important superior and operational costs, and adjacent immoderate of our much antithetic but uncommon £130 losses."

The manager of the Wasdale Head Inn agreed to enactment the men up for the nighttime astatine a discounted complaint but were ne'er paid.  (Google Maps)

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In a remark nether the post, the edifice thanked the squad for "dealing with this incidental successful their accustomed nonrecreational manner, and to our unit who stayed up to look aft the starving and frozen walkers erstwhile they were brought successful astir 2am."

They added, "Luckily this is the archetypal clip successful surviving representation (45 years oregon more) that those rescued person behaved similar this, nevertheless the messages of enactment and donations for the squad from truthful galore radical much than marque up for this 1 selfish episode."