Rescuers stretcher the walker from the gully. Photo: Cockermouth MRT
A walker was airlifted from a Lake District fell after suffering serious leg injuries in a 20m (66ft) fall into a waterfall.
The 52-year-old man from London was going up steep ground near Little Round How on Sunday when he fell.
Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was alerted about 5.20pm and went to the site, near Dubs Quarry, Honister.
The Great North Air Ambulance and a Royal Navy Sea King search and rescue helicopter from HMS Gannet also flew to the scene.
A team doctor, one of the air ambulance paramedics were lowered down the waterfall gully to reach the stricken walker, who had a knee injury.
Rescuers guide the Sea King in to the site. Photo: Cockermouth MRT
He was secured and then treated in the gully before being hauled out of the waterfall ravine in a stretcher.
He was then carried to the fellside where the Sea King airlifted him to West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven for further treatment.
The incident involved 19 volunteer Cockermouth team members.
Barry Edwards
30 July 2013That's my brother-in-law on the stretcher! Thanks to all those wonderful folk at CMRT for their fantastic help. I met some of them a few months ago when they were doing a 60th birthday photo shoot on the side of Grasmoor. It prompted me to take an annual gold subscription to support MRT England & Wales. worth every penny!