Deepdale Hause and St Sunday Crag

A walker was airlifted from a Lakeland fell after suffering a knee injury.

The 22-year-old woman was walking with family at the head of Deepdale today when she aggravated an old injury.

Police contacted Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team about 1.10pm and eight of its members were flown to Deepdale Hause, between Cofa Pike and St Sunday Crag, by the North West Air Ambulance.

The air ambulance and rescuers at Deepdale Hause. Photo: Dawn Dick

Members of the team splinted the walker’s leg and she was stretchered to the helicopter and flown to Furness General Hospital, Barrow-in-Furness.

Team members then walked the remaining members of the walking party off the fell.

Reader Dawn Dick supplied the picture of the rescue on the hause. She said: “I stood and watched it!”