The man was stretchered from Goat's Hawse, between the Old Man of Consiton and Dow Crag. Photo: Michael Graham CC-BY-SA-2.0
A walker was stretchered from a Lakeland fell in an operation involving two mountain rescue teams.
Coniston Mountain Rescue Team was called out yesterday at 2pm after the man fell in the Goat’s Hawse area, north-west of the summit of the Old Man of Coniston.
The Coniston team treated the man for a suspected broken ankle and called for help from Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team because of the long stretcher carry and the slippery conditions underfoot.
The walker was taken to the Coniston’s team base in its Land Rover, then transferred to a road ambulance which took him to Furness General Hospital in Barrow in Furness.
The rescue involved 13 members of the Coniston team and a further 13 from the Duddon and Furness team.
