One of the walkers suffered a broken ankle while descending Arnison Crag

Two walkers were treated by mountain rescuers after injuring themselves in separate falls today.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members were alerted by the ambulance service after a 74-year-old Cheshire man slipped while descending from Arnison Crag.

A spokesperson for the team said: “On reaching the scene the casualty was found to have sustained an open fracture of his left ankle. The injured ankle was bandaged and splinted, and the casualty placed in a stretcher.

“He was then lowered down the fell to a waiting land ambulance for transport to Carlisle Infirmary.”

The call came as team members were dealing with an earlier incident in which a 70-year-old man from Carlisle tripped and fell on Ullswater’s upper lake shore path below Place Fell. The walker suffered a dislocated shoulder. He was treated by the mountain rescue team at the scene, then stretchered to its Land Rover which took the man to the team’s Patterdale rescue centre for transfer to an ambulance. He was then taken to hospital.

Fifteen team members took part in the rescues this afternoon.

Patterdale MRT was also called out yesterday, Saturday, after a group of walkers reported their concerns for a solo walker they encountered near the Hole in the Wall, on the route to Helvellyn’s Striding Edge.

A team spokesperson said: “The concerned walkers monitored his progress and directed him down to Glenridding. When they arrived at the valley bottom the man was nowhere to be seen so they called the police to give information on the situation.

“The team’s search managers met and made a search plan. The local area was investigated and no person was found.”