Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team completed a near seven-hour rescue yesterday, while also being called out to two other jobs.
At just after 3.15pm on June 29 Cumbria Police informed Patterdale MRT of an incident near to the summit of Helvellyn.
A 31-year-old had sustained an ankle injury after being hit with a falling rock. The team were then alerted to the job and started making their way there.
Whilst on route Cumbria Police made the team aware of a second Job in Martindale of a person who had fallen sustaining head and chest injuries, as all their team member were preparing for what would be a long carry out and most of our resources used up, they asked Penrith team to take on this second job.
Whilst walking across the summit of Helvellyn, they then received a third job from Cumbria Police informing us of a person lost on the low cloud. By this time, Patterdale MRT had a few people spare to send to locate them.
90 minutes after receiving the first job, they got to the casualty on Helvellyn and team members were able to splint the casualties damage ankle and give them some pain relief before beginning the long decent back to the Valley bottom.
Four team vehicles were then transported from the drop off location in Greenside into the Grisedale Valley where they then transferred the casualty into one of the team Land Rovers and onwards to the team base where he was met by friends and taken to hospital to be checked out.
This rescue lasted six hours 45 minutes and involved 16 team members.
Patterdale MRT thanked Penrith Mountain Rescue Team for picking up the second job and taking care of the casualty in Martindale.
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