Volunteers of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team had recently returned from their annual winter mountaineering weekend when they were called out by Cumbria Police, to reports of a lady who had slipped and injured her ankle while ascending the path up towards Red Tarn, Helvellyn.

When the team arrived on scene, a bivi shelter was erected to provide protection from the elements while the ankle was assessed. Due to the nature of the injury, the ankle was placed in a splint and the lady was transferred on to a stretcher and transported back to Greenside Mines to the team landrovers. The rescue lasted 3.5hrs and involved 9 members.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team’s former incident archive records this callout on 21 January 2023 as ‘Ankle injury at Angle Tarn’. No further public incident report wording survives in the available archive.