Ghyll scramblers suffer head injuries following fall (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Ghyll scramblers suffer head injuries following fall

2:30pm Friday 3rd July 2009 in

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TWO ghyll scramblers suffered head injuries after falling while out near Coniston.

Cumbria Fire and Rescue Team and 17 members of Coniston Mountain Rescue Team were called to assist the men at Church Beck, in the Coppermines Valley at around 4.20pm yesterday (Thursday).

One man was treated for head injuries and transferred to Furness General Hospital via land ambulance, while the other was treated for serious head and leg injuries and airlifted to FGH by the Great North Air Ambulance.

Anthony Robinson, CMRT team leader, believed the men had fallen around 15 feet. “It was a very difficult excavation. It took around three and a half hours,” he said.