We were alerted by Cumbria Police about a walker who reported an ankle injury. He was given pain relief and helped to walk down as the injury was not thought to be a fracture.
Incident started at 20:05 and ended at 00:18 making 4.2 hrs in total. There were 15 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY 200072. Total rescuer hours: 63
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