Stanage Edge, where a climber was injured in a fall. Photo: Darren Copley

A climber was airlifted to hospital after a fall on one of the Peak District’s most popular crags.

The man fell about 3m (10 feet) from a route on Stanage Edge on Saturday.

He fell on to his feet before he pitched forward, suffering a head injury. Edale Mountain Rescue Team went to the man’s aid.

Charlie Bartlett of the team said: “The climber had made his own way down to the car park, and arrived there as the team was arriving on scene.  Team members including a paramedic assessed his injuries, and as he was complaining of pain in his back, immobilised him as a precaution, before he was flown to hospital.”

He was airlifted by an air ambulance crew that had just dealt with another rescue of a climber.

The Edale team was called to Bamford Edge to aid a man suffering from an acute medical problem causing severe headaches.

Mr Bartlett said: “Due to the urgent nature of the situation, team members evacuated the casualty rapidly to the helicopter above the edge in a vacuum mattress, rather than the normal procedure of using the stretcher as well.”

On Sunday shortly before 4pm, the team was called to the Longshaw Estate in the central Peak District to a man in his 80s who had tripped and fallen on a path.  After assessment by a team paramedic and transport back to the car park, the man agreed with the attending ambulance crew that he did not require transport to hospital.

• A Coastguard rescue team went to the aid of a climber suffering a suspected broken ankle yesterday.

The man had been climbing on sea cliffs north of Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire, next to Slains Castle.

The 32-year-old was at the bottom of the cliffs, walking over rocks, when he fell and injured himself.

Aberdeen Coastguard was alerted at 1.55pm and the Cruden Bay and Peterhead Coastguard rescue teams were called out and requested the launch of the Peterhead RNLI lifeboat. The teams lowered a cliffman with a rescue stretcher down to the man.

The climber was put into the rescue stretcher and winched back up the cliff and then taken to hospital by ambulance.

Matthew Mace, watch manager at Aberdeen Coastguard said: “Although, it may look simple and easy, cliffs can present challenging conditions.  This caller did exactly the right thing in calling for expert help from the Coastguard.

“Our teams are fully trained and equipped for such rescue procedures. If you see someone in trouble dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard.”