Stanage Edge, scene of three separate climbing falls. Photo: Darren Copley

Three rock-climbers were rescued in four days after suffering injuries on one of the Peak District’s most popular crags.

Edale Mountain Rescue Team was called to help a man on Saturday who had fallen 8m (25ft) while on a route on Stanage Edge near Hathersage.

Team members were alerted about 10am and found the man suffering two obviously broken wrists after he fell while descending to the base of the crag. He was also complaining of back pain. After treatment by Edale MRT he was flown by air ambulance to hospital in Sheffield where it was discovered the climber had fractured a vertebra.

Soon after the rescuers had returned home, they were called out again to help another climber who had fallen less than 50m away from the site of the earlier incident.

He had back and chest pain, as well as cuts and bruises. He was again treated and carried down to a waiting ambulance and taken to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.

The previous Wednesday, a climber suffered a badly broken ankle after a fall on what rescuers called the ‘popular end’ of Stanage Edge. The team was alerted at about 5.30pm and treated and made more comfortable before being stretchered to an air ambulance which flew him to the Northern General Hospital.