Ankle Injury on St Sunday Crag
A team vehicle above Ullswater. A general photograph — not taken at this callout.
Home / Incidents / Callout 2024_036 · 21 June 2024
Callout 2024_036
Injured walker
Following receipt of a 999 call from a Penrith MRT Member and three colleagues, reporting a young male with an injured ankle on St Sunday Crag, Cumbria Police tasked the Team to assist. The Team made the steep ascent from the Grisedale Valley to provide pain relief and stabilise the ankle before stretchering the casualty from the fell.
The callout in numbers
12
Team members
3½
Hours on the hill
36
Callout of the year
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Cumbria Police.
With thanks to Cumbria Police.
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