Catbells: Keswick Mountain Rescue help 60 year old woman. Photo: KMT.
The Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were called out to Catbells yesterday noontime.
A 60 year old female slipped and stumbled whilst descending the fell towards Hause Gate injuring her ankle.
The woman’s husband said he heard a snapping sound but regardless the woman was unable to continue her walk. They called 999 and asked Mountain Rescue for help.
A small team made their way up to the casualty from Manesty where they gave pain relief before splinting the leg and stretchering down towards Littletown in the Newlands Valley.
The pair were then taken to Keswick so the husband could take his wife to hospital for an x-ray.
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