Stickle Ghyll

A man sustained a serious ankle fracture/dislocation. He was treated by team members, but the need for ongoing manual traction applied to the ankle in order to maintain the blood supply to his foot meant that a stretcher evacuation was not the best option. A Coastguard helicopter was requested and was able to attend and winch the man and fly him to hospital

A young woman took a tumbling fall, sustaining head, facial and neck injuries. She was treated by team members and evacuated by Coastguard helicopter from Prestwick

A teenager taking part in organised activities became severely dehydrated

A woman slipped on a wet path and sustained a nasty open fracture to her ankle. She was treated by an NWAS paramedic and team members and evacuated by stretcher 

A woman sustained a suspected lower leg fracture when she slipped 

She was treated by team members and evacuated by stretcher

A male, known to be insulin dependant, became ill. He was treated by team members and evacuated  

A woman sustained an ankle inury when she jumped into a pool while ghyll scrambling. Helpfully, she managed to get herself out of the water, where she was treated and evacuated

A young male, ghyll scrambling with an organised group, fell and sustained leg and arm injuries. He was given pain relief and his injuries were splinted and he was evacuated froma moderately challenging position at the bottom of a waterfall. He was tranferred to an ambulance in the valley bottom

A young man suffered an ankle injury on the Stickle Tarn path. He was treated by the team and evacuated by stretcher

A 79-year-old male collapsed, becoming briefly unconscious. He was treated by team members and stretchered to the vallety and transferred to a waiting ambulance

A walker sustained a suspected lower leg fracture. Treated by team members and evacuated by stretcher

A male, aged 71, took a tumble and suffered  suspected fracture to his lower leg. He was evacuated by the team and transferred to an ambulance at our base for onward transport

A woman slipped on steep, frozen ground and sustained a painful, suspected lower leg fracture. She was treated by team members and then stretchered down over some pretty tricky terrain. She was transferred to an ambulance at our base and trabsported to hospital.