Great North Air Ambulance and Keswick Mountain Rescue respond to call of a collapsed walker

The Great North Air Ambulance and Keswick Mountain Rescue respond to a call of a collapsed walker.

A father and daughter had scrambled up Cat Gill, the gully to the south of Walla Crag, on Saturday, September 13, and were en route towards Bleaberry Fell when the father collapsed and fell unconscious.

Due to the urgent nature of the incident the Great North Air Ambulance’s Helimed 58 was called into action.

While Keswick’s Mountian Rescue team gathered and made their way up to the back of Walla Crag.

On arrival the Air Ambulance paramedic found the man had fortunately recovered and was now conscious and talking.

The father and daughter with the paramedics and Keswick Mountain Rescue – Keswick Mountain Rescue

The man was given a medical assessment before being put on a stretcher for a carry up to the helicopter.

From there he was flown to Crow Park in Keswick to meet an ambulance for onward transfer to Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary.