A woman in her 20s was airlifted to hospital after falling around 30 metres at Hartsop, below Brock Crag.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team received a call about the incident at 3.30pm on Friday from the North West Ambulance Service. The team’s duty leader made contact with the woman’s partner and established their location.
With a Great North Air Ambulance Service helicopter trying to locate the couple, the team mobilised from its Patterdale base to the scene. They found the air ambulance had landed in the valley bottom as there was nowhere suitable near the casualty.
She was examined and treated by the team’s doctor for facial and head injuries and lower back pain, having been unconscious for a short while.
Due to the nature of the fall — a significant distance down the hillside through a boulder field and trees — and her injuries, a Coastguard helicopter with winching capabilities was called in from Caernarfon.
She was winched on to the helicopter and flown to a major trauma centre at Preston.
The incident lasted three hours and involved 19 team members.
The following afternoon, Patterdale team were informed by Cumbria police that a woman in her 60s had fallen while walking at Aira Force.
Ten rescuers responded and found the casualty sat on a bench, having tripped on some tree roots and fallen, injuring her leg.
She was examined and given pain relief, placed on to a stretcher and carried down to the main road where she was able to get into a friend’s car.
She was driven to hospital to get checked over as it was suspected she had sustained a hamstring injury in the fall. The rescue lasted just over 90 minutes.
