Three Eden-based mountain rescue teams attended four incidents from Friday to Sunday.
On Friday lunchtime, the Patterdale team were called by police following a report of a female who had tumbled and suffered a head injury near Watermillock.
The female student was on her Duke of Edinburgh Award assessment and had stumbled while descending a path, rolled down the hillside a short distance and sustained slight grazes and also soreness and swelling to the side of her head.
Pain relief was given and she was then assisted to the team Land Rover and taken back to base. The rescue lasted two and a half hours, with 10 team members in attendance.
On Saturday at around 1-15pm, the team were called out to help a female who had injured her ankle at Grisedale Tarn. The injured walker had come over Helvellyn and down to the tarn, where she slipped, injured her ankle and was unable to continue.
Other walkers looked after her and called 999 to request mountain rescue. The team treated her ankle at the scene.
She was then stretchered down the Grisedale Valley to a team vehicle. The rescue took four hours and 12 team members attended.
As the team were on their way back to their base, another call-out came in for the Boredale Hause area at around 5pm. A female walker had gone over her ankle as she was descending from the hause with friends into Patterdale.
She was quickly located and her injured ankle was treated by the team doctor. The casualty was the taken down towards Beckstones Farm on a stretcher. Fifteen team members were involved and the rescue lasted two and a half hours.
The following day, police received a call from a walking group that a member of their party had dislocated their ankle on the descent from Kidsty Pike, above Haweswater. A fellow member of the group had re-located the joint, but the casualty was still unable to walk.
Penrith rescue team members responded and, given the length of the stretcher carry required, contacted the Kirkby Stephen team for help.
Once rescuers arrived, the limb was splinted and the casualty carried a mile and a half to the car park at Mardale Head. The North West Ambulance Service was at the parking area, provided further treatment and transport the casualty to the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. The incident lasted nearly six hours and involved 15 Penrith team members and four from the Kirkby Stephen team.
