Rescuers stretchered the walker to a Patterdale MRT ambulance

A visitor from Belgium was rescued from a Lake District fell today after she slipped and broke her ankle.

The 39-year-old was walking with her family on the Knott above Hayeswater when the accident happened. Members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to help the walker.

She was treated on the hill by the team, which then stretchered her from the fell to the team’s ambulance at Hayeswater dam. She was taken to the Patterdale rescue centre, from where she was transferred to the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, by ambulance.

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  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: broken fibula. Photo: Agência Brasil. Brazil

  It was confirmed today that the Duchess of Cornwall broke her leg while hillwalking yesterday. The 62-year-old wife of the Prince of Wales was out walking near Prince Charles’s residence Birkhall on the Balmoral estate in Deeside.

Although she fell yesterday, she only discovered that her fibula was fractured after having an x-ray today.

Clarence House declined to say exactly where Camilla took a tumble. She will carry on her duties with her left leg in a pot.