The walker injured his ankle on St Bees Head, just one mile into the Coast to Coast route

A walker was rescued after injuring himself less than a mile after starting a 192-mile trek.

The man suffered an ankle injury on St Bees Head today shortly after starting the Coast to Coast Walk.

Members of Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out at 11.35am when the walker was unable to continue on his long-distance trek.

Rescue team doctors helped the crew of the Great North Air Ambulance treat the man and aided him to the waiting helicopter which flew him to the car park at St Bees beach from where he was taken to his lodgings in Ennerdale.

The Wasdale team was also involved in a six-hour rescue of a man who fell while scrambling on the Scafell range.

The 27-year-old suffered a 15m (50ft) tumbling fall from a ridge on Ill Crag yesterday, Wednesday.

Eighteen members of the Wasdale team responded at 3.30pm to help the man, who was in pain and unable to walk after suffering a suspected broken pelvis.

The Wasdale team requested help from neighbouring Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team, which mobilised 11 members.

Ill Crag, scene of yesterday's rescue after the man fell while scrambling

A Wasdale MRT spokesperson said: “This is about as remote a place as we have in our area.

“We responded with a full callout and also asked for the assistance of a Sea King from RAF Boulmer.”

The scrambler was found half way up the right-hand ridge of Little Narrowcove and the team’s doctor gave him pain relief before he was put in a vacuum mattress and stretcher.

The RAF helicopter crew then winched him into the aircraft and flew him to hospital.

The full ascent of Ill Crag’s south-east face is a grade 2 or grade 3 scramble involving 300m of vertical ascent.