ELEVEN members of Coniston Mountain Rescue Team helped a woman who had fallen on the banks of Coniston water this afternoon.
Boats from the Coniston Boating Centre were used to rescue the woman at around 12.30, at the south end of the water.
It is believed she had slipped while trying to take a photograph.
Police and the ambulance service also attended, and the woman was taken to hospital.
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