Ankle injury near Ruthwaite Lodge
Ruthwaite Lodge. Photograph: Patterdale MRT.
Home / Incidents / Callout 2021_044 · 19 August 2021
Callout 2021_044
Injured walker
At about 15:45 on Thursday 19th August a 43 year old woman injured her ankle while walking in the Grisedale valley with her family. With no phone signal, the husband and son walked down to Cruck Barn holiday cottage to raise the alarm, before returning to the casualty site.
Patterdale Mountain rescue team was called at 17:52 and 16 Team members responded, making their way up to the family, a few hundred metres south of Ruthwaite Lodge. After assessing and splinting the woman’s left ankle and administering analgesia the team stretchered her down to a waiting Land Rover ambulance. A further examination was conducted back at the Team’s Rescue Centre and it was agreed that she would make here own way to hospital for an Xray.
The rescue involved 16 unpaid volunteer members and took about 3 hours. This was the fifth incident involving the Team in 3 days.
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