RESCUE volunteers were called to help a Carnforth teenager after he stumbled and suffered a lower leg injury near Helvellyn.
The 18-year-old was carried off the fell in a stretcher after he had managed, with the help of his mother, to struggle to Red Tarn Farm where he called the police for assistance.
Members of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were contacted and made their way to the scene where they treated the casualty's ankle and put it in a splint before carrying him off the fell in a stretcher.
The rescue, which took place on Tuesday, May 15, took four hours to complete and involved 16 rescue volunteers.
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