AN ORIENTEER required help from mountain rescuers after falling during an organised event.
Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team launched the rescue operation on Sunday afternoon.
At around midday, the team was called after a lady had slipped during an orienteering event on the East side of Harter Fell and sustained an ankle injury.
Fortunately many of the team were already at base taking part in routine training so were quickly deployed in three vehicles.
The team made contact with the event organisers, who directed them to the injured lady, who had been in sight of the finishing line when she slipped on wet ground.
She was then assessed by the team, given pain relief, her injured ankle placed in a vacuum splint, and transported on the stretcher to Black Hall Farm where she was handed over to a waiting ambulance for onward transportation to hospital.
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