Corridor Route

Incident

88 in 2011

Type

Full Callout — Injured & Medical

Location

Corridor Route, Scafell Pike

Other Agencies

Duddon & Furness MRT

Diagnosis

Arm Injury

The team were called out to attend a woman who had sustained a broken shoulder in a stumble fall near the bad step on the corridor route. The alarm had been raised by a member of the casualty’s group who had descended to Wasdale Head. When the team arrived at the corridor route the casualty was not in the reported location and given the very strong winds and frequent showers we suspected that she would be trying to walk down to the valley. Whilst searching all the possible descent routes the casualty and the remaining member of her group were spotted a couple of hundred metres below the corridor route, before Skew Gill.

A team doctor gave the casualty analgesia for her shoulder which was then strapped up for the stretcher carry down to Burnthwaite. We reached the vehicles just as it was getting dark and were grateful for the assistance of Duddon and Furness Team who provided extra manpower.