Team members at the scene treat the walker under a bivvy shelter. Photo: Keswick MRT

A walker was airlifted from a Lake District fell after she slipped and broke her arm.

The 50-year-old woman was on Bakestall, an outlier of Skiddaw when the incident happened today.

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 12.45pm but initially could only send a limited number of its members as the team was in the middle of an advanced first-aid course.

Four members of the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs Association who were training in the Newlands area were joined in the rescue by another search dog handler – all of whom are mountain rescue team members – and made their way with Keswick team members to the incident.

The walker had suffered what a Keswick spokesperson said was an extremely painful injury in the slip near the summit of the 673m (2,208ft) fell.

Rescuers made their way to the site, 2km (1¼ miles) north of Skiddaw, via the Dash Beck track and as they approached the walker the Great North Air Ambulance landed at the scene.

The helicopter’s doctor gave the woman pain relief and she had her arm splinted and she was then carried to the aircraft.

The walker was then flown to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle for further treatment.

The rescue involved 15 Keswick MRT members and lasted 2¼ hours. If was the team’s 95th of the year, which equals its tally for the whole of 2011.