The man fell from the Longdendale Trail. Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe CC-BY-SA-2.0

A walker was rescued from a precarious position on a long-distance trail.

Glossop Mountain Rescue Team was called out by ambulance staff to help a man who had fallen 3m (9ft) from an embankment on the Longdendale Trail.

The man was lodged on the edge of a drystone wall overlooking another drop and steep banking about half a mile from the nearest road.

A team spokesperson said: “The team and ambulance crew extracted the casualty, maintaining full spinal protection and loaded him on to the stretcher ready for a carry to the waiting ambulance on Padfield Main Road.”

The rescue lasted just over an hour.

The Longdendale Trail through Derbyshire forms part of the Trans Pennine Trail, a 346km (215-mile) route running from Hornsea on the east coast to Southport in the West. It follows the route of a disused trans-Pennine railway through Longdendale.