Men tripping on magic mushrooms had to be rescued after becoming stranded on mountain

Men tripping on magic mushrooms had to be rescued after becoming stranded on mountain.

Rescuers had to aid a group of men on a mountaintop who were tripping on magic mushrooms because their altered state rendered them unable to descend from the peak Saturday in the United Kingdom.

Passers-by reported the group of “young adult males” acting strangely around noon at Stonycroft Beck, Newlands area of the Lake District National Park, roughly 75 miles north of Liverpool.

Two of the men — including the party’s driver — became ill after ingesting the mind-bending psychedelic fungi, the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said.

The rescuers staged a delicate operation to convince the men to let them guide them to safety at the bottom of the mountain before it got dark.

“The casualties were walked down and given advice by the team medic regarding the timing of their onward travel,” the agency said in a statement.

It was Keswick mountain rescue’s 24th rescue of 2023 and took two hours.

Mountain Rescue England and Wales, which is funded entirely by donations, prides itself on not judging those it helps, regardless of the cause of their distress.

Its report of the callout says simply: “A number of calls were received via passersby, who had come across a group of young adult males who had taken magic mushrooms. Two in the group were feeling unwell, including the driver in the party. The casualties were walked down and given advice by the team medic regarding the timing of their onward travel.”

During one of the Covid lockdowns in February 2021, a mountain rescue volunteer was paralysed after falling 150 metres during a callout to two people camping above Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District.

Chris Lewis, 60, a retired engineer and volunteer with Patterdale mountain rescue, sustained life-changing spinal injuries and multiple facial fractures when he went to help the two campers from Liverpool and Leicester after one fell ill, believing he was having a heart attack. It was pitch black and cold enough that the team’s oxygen cylinders froze when Lewis slipped and fell.

The original casualty was taken to hospital, where he quickly recovered. He and his companion were fined £200 for breaking coronavirus restrictions. Lewis will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. More than £886,000 was raised to help him and his family.