The woman took a tumbling fall on the High Level Route on Pillar

Lakeland mountain rescuers worked with an RAF helicopter crew to help two walkers in separate incidents.

Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 3.15pm yesterday, Sunday, when a walker injured herself while walking on Pillar, above Ennerdale.

The woman, who was walking alone, took a tumble in a fall about 630m up on the High Level Route near Looking Stead, injuring her hip.

The team requested the help of a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer and the woman was given pain relief by rescuers at the site before being put into a vacuum mattress and winched into the aircraft which flew her to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.

While 19 members of the Wasdale team were dealing with the incident, they received a second request for help after another walker experienced severe cramp while coming down from Scafell Pike and was unable to continue unaided.

A team spokesperson said: “Once the first casualty was stabilised the Sea King from RAF Boulmer winched four team members aboard and carried them to Scafell Pike to attend to the walker with cramp – this would have taken at least a couple of hours on foot.”

After airlifting the Pillar walker to hospital, the helicopter crew returned to the scene on Broad Crag Col below Scafell Pike’s summit to fly the second walker and rescuers to the valley at Wasdale Head.