A MOUNTAIN rescue team was called out after an 80-year-old woman tripped on a mountain and injured herself.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (PMRT) was alerted on Tuesday, August 3 by Cumbria Police to a walker who had slipped on Striding Edge while traversing the edge with her family when she tripped and landed on her wrist.
The team’s deputy leader made contact with the woman and her family and established that apart from the wrist injury and some grazes on her leg she was ‘fit and well’.
A PMRT spokesman said: “Once the team met up with the casualty at the end of Striding Edge she was treated for a suspected broken wrist, splinted and given pain relief.
“The lady was happy to walk down the path into Grisedale alongside the team to a waiting team Land Rover where she was conveyed to the family’s car for forward journey to hospital with her family as they were on holiday in the area.”
Eleven team members attended the rescue which took four and a half hours.
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