Rescuers have revealed how they saved a walker who survived a night on the Lake District fells as Storm Ophelia battered the county.

The man was exhausted and suffering from hypothermia when he was discovered by the first two of a team of mountain rescue volunteers.

He had also been left "battered and bruised" from being blown over several times by the strong winds of the storm while he was out on Monday night.

Mountain rescuers were alerted yesterday morning when the Wasdale team took a call about a man near the Sty Head stretcher box at Borrowdale.

He was discovered by a passerby who used the phone box at Seathwaite Farm to raise the alarm.

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was called in when it appeared the call-out was in its area.

Two local volunteers headed straight to the scene with warm clothing and a shelter, discovering the walker close to the footbridge below Sty Head Tarn.

The Keswick mountain rescue team was very shorthanded with no fewer than 18 members away at a winter training course.

The team was assisted by fellow volunteers from the neighbouring Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team to ensure there would be enough manpower to stretcher the walker from the fell.

The man was stretchered down to Seathwaite Farm and taken by ambulance to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle for treatment.

Sixteen mountain rescuers - seven from Keswick and nine from Cockermouth - spent more than three and a half hours on the rescue.