Two mountain rescue teams went to the aid of a stricken walker in the Lake District today.

The woman, from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, suffered a suspected broken ankle in a fall on Place Fell. Thirteen members of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team tended to the 39-year-old woman near the summit of the 657m (2,156ft) fell overlooking Ullswater.

She was treated by members of the rescue team at the scene and then stretchered to the valley. Six members of the Penrith MRT helped carry the casualty to the valley bottom in Boredale, from where the team’s vehicle took the walker to Pooley Bridge, to be met by an ambulance.

The rescue took 4½ hours.