- Incident
- 80 in 2014
- Type
- Full Callout — Injured & Medical
- Location
- Stony Tarn, Eskdale
- Diagnosis
- Leg Injury
- Tagged
- Fell Runner, Wasdale Triathlon
We were contacted by Police about a fell runner who had injured his leg on the Wasdale Triathlon, near Stony Tarn in Eskdale. A team doctor assessed the runner’s injury before it was splinted, then he was taken by stretcher down to Boot in Eskdale where we handed over to the Ambulance.
Incident started at 17:50 and ended at 21:00 making 3.2 hrs in total. There were 17 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY 198 026 (altitude 329 m). Total rescuer hours: 54
