Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team - Injured Knee Scafell Pike

7:54 28/08/07( 2.58 p.m.) - Tuesday
The team were paged to rescue a male walker in his early 50s with an injured knee. He along with his son and nephew in their 30s had climbed Scafell Pike from Eskdale and whilst descending his knee was causing him sever pain and he was unable to walk. He was high on the Scafell plateau only a few hundred metres from the summit cairn. He was carried down to Brackenclose by stretcher via Lingmel Col and Lingmel nose. There were around 18 team members on the callout and the incident was closed at 8.30 p.m.

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Sports

Tags:

• Wasdale
• Mountain
• Rescue
• Lake
• District
• injured
• knee
• scafell
• pike
• richard
• warren