A man who disappeared while out on a walk in the Lake District had to be airlifted to hospital after he was discovered trapped on a ledge.
Keswick Mountain Rescue was called out yesterday, June 7, at around 5pm by a woman who said her partner had gone missing.
She was on top of Bleaberry Fell and her partner had gone to Ashness Gill, above Ashness Bridge, for a solo climb, but had failed to return to their meeting spot and she could not raise him on the phone.
Volunteers from the mountain rescue team focused their search on the gill and found the man.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said: “He had fallen an unknown distance sustaining a head and various other injuries, but amazingly he had landed or slid onto a small ledge which prevented him falling down another large drop.
“A rope rescue was arranged to extract him out of the gill and after pain relief, warming, and treatment to his injuries he was stretchered to an open area where R199 from the Coastguard winched him for an airlift to Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary.
“Many thanks to the Coastguard for the assistance. We wish the man a swift recovery.”
