The third incident of the evening was to a male walker who had injured his ankle on Lingmell Nose screes. He was stretchered to the road and transferred to an ambulance at Gosforth.
Incident started at 19:40 and ended at 22:20 making 2.7 hrs in total. There were 19 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY 1943 0771 (altitude 477 m). Total rescuer hours: 51
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