[C]oniston MRT was alerted on Monday afternoon to an incident where a teenager had fallen around 5 metres while Ghyll Scrambling in Church Beck and suffered a leg injury.
A spokesman for Coniston MRT said: “The Casualty’s injuries were treated initially by team members and further checks and treatment were administered by the crew of a North West Air Ambulance (NWAA) which had been able to land a short distance away.
“The casualty was stretchered from the ravine, using a technical rope system and carried to a waiting Coniston MRT Land Rover Ambulance, he was then transferred to the NWAA helicopter for transfer to Furness General Hospital, Barrow in Furness.”
Eleven Coniston MRT members were involved in this incident.
