A MAN in his sixties suffered serious head injuries after falling 300ft from a Lake District fell.

He fell from St Sunday Crag, which is part of the Fairfield group.

The 69-year-old was attended to by the emergency services on Saturday (April 29).


Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team members ascended to the scene of the incident where a passing police officer and emergency medical technician from Cumbria were assisting the man and his friends. 

The man had suffered serious head injuries, possible chest trauma, a broken leg and wrist.

He was treated on scene, evacuated on a stretcher to the valley bottom and flown by helicopter to the Royal Victoria Infirmary hospital in Newcastle.

Mike Blakey, team leader of Patterdale MRT said: "We did not initially issue a statement as we were unable to contact his family and it was clear that he had suffered serious injuries. We are pleased to report that we are expecting him to make a full recovery, which is remarkable given the distance which he had fallen.

"We would like to formally thank the couple who were passing by and helped throughout. We’d also like to pass on our thanks to the Coastguard helicopter, Rescue 999, from Prestwick in Scotland. It was scrambled to assist us, but given the nature of the casualty’s injuries we made the decision to carry him to the air ambulance rather than wait for the second helicopter to arrive."