We took a walk with Mike Park through the Buttermere valley, up the Gasgale Gill trail, a path known for hiking and running which frequently sees accidents. He’s been a Mountain Rescue volunteer in Cockermouth, Cumbria for 40 years, and is the current CEO of Mountain Rescue England and Wales. He told us about how the changes in weather are messing with paths and rivers, how it’s more difficult to plan outdoor activities and training, and how more people go out at night to compensate. Obviously that means more call outs to the mountains, but he’s even more worried about the fact that Mountain Rescue are having to work more in urban environments. He described what it was like being called out to do urban flood rescue in the Cockermouth floods of 2010 and 2015, and what more and more flooding might mean for the future of Mountain Rescue, which is, as it stands, an organisation made up of volunteers.