Uldale Force, close to the scene of the fatal fall. Photo: Andrew Mawby CC-BY-SA-2.0

A walker has died after falling into a gill in Cumbria.

The 61-year-old man was with his wife and a friend when he slipped from a narrow path above Rawthey Gill near Baugh Fell.

Thirteen members of the Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team went to the walker’s aid after the incident on Sunday, in which the man suffered serious injuries when he fell about 10m (35ft) over a crag into the gill leading to Uldale Force.

An RAF Sea King helicopter that was on a training exercise near Windermere was diverted and airlifted the walker to hospital in Lancaster, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Members of the rescue team walked the man’s wife and friend from the fell.

• The walker was named as William Bingley from Caton, near Lancaster.