Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were called out twice in quick succession on Monday afternoon to assist two walkers who had slipped and injured themselves.

The first call out at 14.55 on Monday March 18 saw Keswick MRT rescue a 49-year-old woman who slipped and went over on her ankle whilst walking at Ellas Crag below Rowling End in the Newlands Valley.

The team reduced (realigned) and splinted the ankle and stretchered the woman down to the team vehicle before taking her to Keswick Cottage Hospital from where she was taken to Carlisle CIC by her partner.

In total, the rescue took two hours 55 minutes and involved.

At 14.56, Keswick MRT received another call out and 14 team members travelled to Newlands and Castle Crag to rescue a male e-mountain biker who had a tumble into a stream on the Allerdale Ramble just south of Castle Crag.

The man landed in the rocky stream and the bike which he was still clipped into fell on top of him with the weight transferring to his knee. With help from his friend he managed to drag himself out of the stream and into a bit of shelter from the wind but could not weight bear.

Keswick team approached from New Bridge, Rosthwaite. The man was given pain relief and his leg immobilised in a vacuum splint before being stretchered down to the team vehicles and brought back to base. One lucky team member rode the man’s very nice bike back to town with the friend to collect their car for onward transport to hospital.

The rescue took two hours and 14 minutes.