This is the moment teenage ice climbers rescue woefully underprepared adult hikers in jeans and trainers from an icy mountain.

Caelan Blades, 16, and Rowan Kay, 15, were scaling a gully filled with ice on Helvellyn in the Lake District on January 10 when they came across a group of five people who were struggling.

The teens had just started their descent from the summit of the mountain – the third highest in England – and were heading across to Striding Edge, a notoriously dangerous jagged stretch of rock with a series of sheer drops.

They discovered that an air ambulance and coastguard helicopter were busy rescuing climbers on Swirral Edge, a spot which leads to the other end of Helvellyn’s summit, so decided to conduct their own rescue mission.

It later emerged a man in his seventies had died after collapsing on the mountain, which is 3,117ft at its peak. 

The boys had thankfully come better prepared than the amateur hikers and both had the correct gear for the task, including ice axes and crampons – a spiky attachment for hiking boots.

The adults had even brought their dog along for a walk on the treacherous stretch of mountain.

Caelan’s father is an experienced hiker and was waiting for the group at the bottom of Helvellyn.

This is the moment teenage ice climbers rescue woefully underprepared adult hikers in jeans and trainers, including one carrying a dog, from Helvellyn in the Lake District

Caelan Blades, pictured, and Rowan Kay were scaling a gully filled with ice on Helvellyn in the Lake District on January 10 when they came across a group of five people who were struggling

The teenager said: ‘We were seeing more and more unprepared people as we came down and then Rowan pointed this group out to me and it was like, ‘Oh my days’. 

‘I was extremely shocked, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing, they didn’t have any correct clothing or equipment.’

Caelan, from Blackburn, Lancashire, added that he and his friend asked the adults if they were aware of where they were and whether they required any clothing or water, but they did not understand English.

He said that one woman in the group was constantly slipping around on the icy snow. 

Phone footage taken by Caelan, who films his climbing exploits and posts them to TikTok, shows the pair carrying out their dramatic rescue task in the snowy wilderness.

Two helicopters can clearly be seen engaged on other parts of the dangerous ridge.

One teen leads the distressed hikers one by one through the snow to safety while the other shouts: ‘This is why you should wear your proper gear, people.’

He adds: ‘Is everybody okay?’

The teens had just started their descent and were heading across to Striding Edge, a notoriously dangerous jagged stretch of rock with a series of sheer drops

The boys had thankfully come better prepared than the amateur hikers and both had the correct gear for the task, including ice axes and crampons

One weak voice can be heard to say: ‘Yes.’

The unprepared adults can then be seen climbing cautiously along the ridge, with one holding the dog in their arms.

‘We’re going to have to escort all these people now,’ one of the boys says. ‘They’ve got a dog, no boots, no crampons, no ice axe.’

He then helps his friend carve out a path down the mountain face away from the perilous Striding Edge to safety. 

The group were escorted down in a zig-zag pattern to Red Tarn down below. 

Caelan led from the front so he could hold on to any of the hikers should they slip and fall. 

Another climber told the teens he had been helping the woman holding the dog, who had no gloves, for around 20 minutes as she endured a panic attack while stumbling along the snowy ridge. 

Rowan, from Settle, North Yorkshire, insisted the hikers – who were mostly in their late 20s – should not have been scaling that part of Helvellyn.

The teenagers later found three further groups of badly prepared hikers along Striding Edge, which can be dangerous to climbers even in less icy summer days, pictured

They eventually got the group down to the village of Glenridding in the space of half an hour.

The pair added that they all shook hands and the grateful adults headed off. 

The teenagers later found three further groups of badly prepared hikers along Striding Edge, which can be dangerous to climbers even in less icy summer days.

‘None of them had ice axes or crampons and we were warning them not to do Striding Edge,’ Caelan said. ‘Some of them said they didn’t even have torches.’

He added that he and Rowan wanted to rescue the group to allow the rescue teams to save hikers in more serious conditions. 

The Patterdale mountain rescue team later thanked the boys for their efforts in saving the struggling hikers and even invited them to their headquarters.