The incident happened on the mountain's North Face. Photo: Peter CC-BY-SA-2.0

A man was airlifted to hospital after falling on the UK’s highest mountain.

Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team was called out on Saturday to the incident in which two climbers fell from high on Green Gully on Ben Nevis’s North Face.

One of them suffered significant injuries, the team said.

The Inverness Coastguard helicopter winched a number of rescuers into Coire na Ciste, where team members assessed and treated the injured man and packaged him into a stretcher before carrying him down to a position from where he could be winched into the aircraft and flown to hospital.

A team spokesperson said: “Over the past few weeks there has been mutual assistance in Glen Coe and Lochaber, between us and our sister team Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team, who have also been extremely busy.

“We wish the casualty all the best in his recovery.”