Broken leg man rescued from fell in hail storm (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Broken leg man rescued from fell in hail storm

10:14am Thursday 5th November 2009

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MOUNTAIN rescuers have helped a man stuck on a Lake District fell top with a broken leg in a hail storm.

Members of Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team, along with members of Kendal MRT, were called to help the man - aged in his 60s - who was stuck near the summit of Long Top in Great Langdale, at 2.40pm yesterday.

He had slipped on a wet rock and suffered a suspected lower leg fracture.

Nick Owen, of Langdale and Ambleside MRT, said: “He was near the summit and it was really wet up there. We went up there and called air ambulance but it couldn’t get in because of the weather.

“He had been walking on his own and some people came across him. The weather was bad and it was hail stoning.

“We then called the RAF who sent a Sea King, it looked like it couldn’t get to us either because of the cloud, but a gap appeared and it was able to winch him away.”

The man was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary, in Carlisle.

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