The walker injured himself on Birkhouse Moor

The walker injured himself on Birkhouse Moor

A walker was stretchered from a Lakeland fell after suffering a suspected broken ankle.

The 25-year-old man from North Shields on Tyneside was with another walker making their way up Helvellyn today when he slipped.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was alerted about 10am and 15 members made their way to Birkhouse Moor, where the incident had happened.

The walker was given pain relief and his ankle was splinted before he was lowered by stretcher down the fell to one of the team’s Land Rovers.

He was then taken to the rescue base in Patterdale, from where an ambulance took him to the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle.

Two team members had earlier joined colleagues from the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team in an incident just minutes into the New Year.

The dog handlers were requested by the Cockermouth team which was called out at eight minutes past midnight to search for a vulnerable woman with learning difficulties who had gone missing from a care home near Cockermouth.

A search by 21 Cockermouth MRT members found the woman, wet and hypothermic, on the banks of a swollen river.

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