A climber has been rescued after falling 100 metres down a gully on a Lake District mountain.
Keswick Mountain Rescue were called out on Friday January 30 at 4.37pm to a climber who had fallen down into a gully on Brown Cove Crags, on the west side of Helvellyn.
The team were alerted by Patterdale Mountain Rescue, who also attended, to the climber, who was with a friend when he slipped and was unable to ice axe arrest.
His friend raised the alarm then made his way around to the base of the crag to find the climber who was conscious but in a lot of pain.
The pair were able to shelter in a bothy bag until the rescue teams arrived.
A Coast Guard helicopter was requested and Rescue 936 from Caernarfon attended but was unable to get to the climber location due to the low cloud.
The climber was assessed, given pain relief and packaged for a stretcher evacuation.
They were lowered by rope down the steep and snowy scree fan and then sledged and carried downward.
The Coastguard in the meantime supplied a grid reference for the team to aim for where a winch evacuation would hopefully be possible.
Once the team were below the cloud R936 very skilfully flew up towards the team.
The climber was then winched into the helicopter and taken to the base of the hill where a GNAAS team were awaiting to continue medical care.
The GNAAS medics then accompanied the casualty in the helicopter to hospital in Preston.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue team members also assisted due to the seriousness of the incident after Keswick were initially low on responding team members.
A total of five Patterdale members travelled to Thirlmere valley to assist.
The rescue lasted five hours in total and involved 26 mountain rescue team members.
