Patterdale MRT was called to the incident above Swarthbeck
A mountain rescue team used ropes to lower an injured walker to safety.
The 19-year-old man slipped while with friends in the Lake District. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted by police about 5.30pm yesterday, Tuesday, after the man slipped and exacerbated an existing injury.
The group, from Blackpool, was on a camping holiday when the walker slipped high above Swarthbeck overlooking the eastern shore of Ullswater.
A spokesperson for the Patterdale team said: “The casualty was lowered down the fell with ropes on a stretcher to the farm below. His friends were guided back across the fell to Roe Head and were driven to their camp site.”
- Four teenage girls were rescued from a Lakeland beck after they were stranded on the wrong side of the stream, which was in spate after heavy rain.
Loft Beck leading from bottom centre to top left
One of the girls, all of whom are 16, was almost swept away while trying to cross Loft Beck, at the head of Ennerdale, on Monday. Her friends, from the Cheshire area, managed to get her back out of the water and the group rang police for help.
Seventeen members of the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team went to their aid and used swiftwater rescue techniques and equipment to get the girls across the beck, which is normally a small mountain stream.
They were taken to the nearby Black Sail youth hostel where they recovered enough to continue their walking holiday.
