A 19-YEAR-OLD was “remarkably lucky” after being rescued by ambulance and mountain rescue teams following a fall.
The incident happened on Saturday at Shepherd’s Crag, Borrowdale - 16 members of Keswick Mountain Rescue received the call-out around 4.04pm. An air and land ambulance also attended.
The male climber fell eight metres and banged his head.
It took nearly two hours to bring him to safety.
A spokesman for the mountain rescue said: “Unfortunately he hit the ground and was in and out of consciousness.
“The team packaged the man in a vacuum mattress and stretchered him to a road ambulance which then took him to the Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary.
“24 hours later we got news he’d been discharged from hospital with just bruises to his shoulder and a cut to the head, he was remarkably lucky.
“He gave us permission to share the photo of his helmet - it may have saved his life.”
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