A 16-year-old boy was rescued after being left alone on a Lake District fell during a thunderstorm.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said they were called to Rosthwaite Fell on Saturday July 11 at around 6.30pm.
The boy was in shorts and a T-shirt while it was raining hard with thunder and lightning.
His legs were locking up after he fell into a bog and lost his shoe, which he managed to recover.
His friend, who was a year older, had left him to continue hiking and left the boy to fend for himself with a low phone battery.
The team said their attempts to call the 16-year-old failed due to poor reception and an initial phone find failed because his location setting was off.
Once it was resolved, a phone find gave his location at the top of Stanger Gill, above Stonethwaite campsite.
Team members met the boy near the foot of the steep Stanger Gill path after he managed to navigate his way down the difficult terrain.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said: “Fortunately he was fine and not too traumatised although he said he had been pretty scared.
“The story was the two had walked up Langstrath, had a swim in Blackmoss Pot then hiked up the fell and onto the fells behind.
“His mate had greater peak-bagging ambition and had cleared off, we assume towards Glaramara leaving our young man to fend for himself.”
The team drove the boy back to Keswick where the two were reunited.
The team added: “They were advised that a party should never separate in the hills but clearly they have so many other lessons to learn…”
