A RESCUE team carved through thick bracken to save a woman who had fallen 300ft on Blencathra.

At 1.59pm yesterday (Wednesday, August 5), Keswick Mountain Rescue Team got a call to say a witness had seen a lady fall from a path on Scales Fell.

The team sent one vehicle immediately to scout the area and found the 70-year-old German tourist at Mousthwaite Combe, having taken a tumbling fall several hundred feet before coming to rest in a gully.

She had suffered serious shoulder injuries and had to be immobilised using a vacuum mattress before being stretchered down through chest-high bracken and placed in an air ambulance.

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The operation involved 11 team members and took two hours, 23 minutes.