Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were called out at around 1pm yesterday to help the walker who had slipped on wet ground. Picture, courtesy of Keswick MRT
A walker was taken to hospital after she injured her ankle on wet ground.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were called out at around 1pm yesterday to help the walker who had slipped on wet ground.
It happened on a path at the foot of Blease Fell, above Threlkeld.
A spokesman for the team said: "As it was a painful injury Keswick team medics provided strong analgesics before treatment, which included a reduction of the dislocated ankle.
"She was then stretchered to an ambulance and taken to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle."
The incident required 15 team members and lasted around three hours.
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