Grisedale, scene of the two rescues

Rescuers called to help an injured hillwalker found a second person needing treatment.

Members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team had been alerted at 1.40pm yesterday by police to a woman from Brighton who had injured her leg in Grisedale in the Lake District.

But on arriving at the scene, the rescuers discovered another walker from Nottingham who had suffered a suspected broken wrist while tackling the Coast to Coast Walk.

A spokesperson for Patterdale MRT said: “Both were treated at the scene by mountain rescue members.

“The lower leg injury was evacuated down the fellside to an air ambulance and taken to [the Cumberland Infirmary], Carlisle; the second casualty with the wrist injury was escorted down the fell to a mountain rescue Land Rover and transferred to the rescue centre.

“She was then transferred to Lancaster Royal Infirmary for treatment.”