A WALKER from Carnforth was airlifted from Red Tarn on Helvellyn on Friday, April 25, after he phoned police to report that he was wet, cold and unwell.
The man, who asked that his name not be released, used his mobile phone to make the call but it stopped working before he could give an exact location.
Members of Patterdale and Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Teams using search dogs found the man suffering from hypothermia. He was flown by RAF helicopter to the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were also called to help a 19-year-old man who sustained head lacerations in a 20-metre fall from Striding Edge on Helvellyn.
LANGDALE and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team came to the rescue of a 36-year-old woman from Southampton after she fell on Silver Howe. Twenty-two team members attended and stretchered the woman from the fell with a suspected leg-fracture.
April 29, 2003 14:31
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