Stickle Tarn. Photo: Michael Eccles CC-BY-SA-2.0

Two walkers were airlifted to hospital after they were injured in separate incidents just 300m apart.

A 15-year-old boy suffered spinal injuries in a fall from the path up Harrison Stickle above Stickle Tarn in Great Langdale.

RAF mountain rescue team members who were in the area at the time of the boy’s slip about midday on Saturday went to his aid before Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team arrived.

He was treated at the scene before being airlifted to hospital by a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter from HMS Gannet in Ayrshire. 15 volunteers from the LAMRT took part in the three-hour rescue.

Four hours later, the team was again called into action to help a woman who slipped on a wet path at the top of Stickle Ghyll, while making her way down from the tarn. Rescuers said she sustained a nasty shoulder injury.

An air ambulance paramedic treated the woman and she was then carried up to the tarn dam and flown to hospital in Lancaster.

The three-hour rescue involved 18 Langdale and Ambleside MRT members.