Volunteers from a mountain rescue team spent more than nine hours helping walkers on Blencathra on Saturday November 2. 

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team attended two incidents at the Lake District mountain on Saturday which also involved support from Penrith Mountain Rescue Team and the Coastguard.

The first incident took place at 1.50pm and involved 12 team members and another five from Penrith.

They were called out to help a walker who had slipped and injured her ankle near Scales Tarn, she was unable to bear weight so her friends called for help. 

She was given pain relief and an ankle splint before being taken down to Scales on a sledge. After this, she was transferred to hospital for further checks.

This took three hours and 40 minutes.

The second incident took place shortly before 6pm and involved 21 team members plus support from the Coastguard.

A 19-year-old dislocated his knee cap shortly before the scramble to the top of Sharp Edge.

The team doctor was able to help the man relocate his knee cap over the phone, but his knee was still swollen and he was unable to bear weight.

As the team has just finished packing the vehicles from the previous callout, they were able to make their way back up to help him.

They wrote on Facebook: "After fixing a safety line along the Edge team members were able to provide pain relief and splint the leg for an assisted hobble back to safer ground.

"From here the man was stretchered to below the cloud base where the Coastguard helicopter was able to pick him up and deliver him to Crow Park in Keswick.

"The man’s friend transported him to hospital for further checks."

This incident took six hours and seven minutes.