Rock climber carried off in full-body vacuum after falling on Great Langdale crag
A MAN has had to be carried off a Great Langdale fell in a 'full-body vacuum' after falling four metres.
The 33-year-old landed on his feet and injured both ankles after slipping while rock climbing on Lower Scout Crag, at around 3.20pm yesterday.
But a member of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team said: "There is potential for a fall of this nature to cause other injuries, masked by the pain in the ankles, so the man was splinted in a full-body vacuum splint as a precaution and then evacuated to the air ambulance waiting in the valley bottom.
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"He was then flown to hospital."
The operation took 10 team members two hours.
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