Rescuers at the scene of the culvert rescue on the Snake Pass. Photo: Edale MRT

A walker suffered a broken spine after being swept away in a Peak District stream.

The woman, in her 50s, was with a group walking near the Snake Pass when she and another member of the party were carried by the stream under the main A57 road and spat out of a culvert down a steep cascade.

Edale and Glossop Mountain Rescue Teams were called out yesterday to help ambulance crews at the site between Bleaklow and Kinder Scout.

Rescuers said the pair were carried some distance down the watercourse before they came to rest.

One member of the group from Sheffield then managed to make his way to the Snake Inn to raise the alarm.

As well as a fractured spine, the woman suffered head and chest injuries. She and her fellow walker were soaking wet and suffering from hypothermia.

Two of the walkers were spat out of the culvert down a cascade. Photo: Edale MRT

An Edale team spokesperson said: “After initial treatment by ambulance service crews and mountain rescue team medics, one casualty was assisted back up to the road while the more seriously injured walker was evacuated by stretcher.

“Both the casualties were taken by ambulance to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.”

Earlier in the week, the team was called to its first fallen climber of the year on Stanage Edge. A man in his 40s fell and suffered a serious open lower-leg fracture.

The climber is stretchered from Stanage. Photo: Edale MRT

He was treated by the team for his injury with pain relief and antibiotics before being airlifted by a helicopter from the North West Air Ambulance. He was flown to the Northern General Hospital for further treatment.

A team spokesperson said: “The absence of proper winter weather so far this year has meant a steady start to the team’s activities in 2014. Even so this brings to eight the number of callouts so far.”