A woman was stretchered from a Lake District fell today after slipping and breaking her ankle.

Members of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to aid the 66-year-old, from Bournemouth, who had fallen on Hartsop above How while walking on Saturday. 12 rescuers used ropes to lower the woman off the 581m (1,906 ft) fell.

A spokesperson for the team said the woman had suffered a fracture dislocation of her left ankle while on the lower section of the path.

The spokesperson continued: “The casualty was treated by the team doctor who administered pain relief and then reduced the dislocation.

“The leg was then placed in a splint and the woman secured onto a stretcher. She was then taken down the fellside on a series of roped lowers. The other members of her party were also assisted down to the valley bottom.”

She was taken to the team’s base in Patterdale by the rescue Land Rover, from where an ambulance took her to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.