Members of Penrith Mountain Rescue Team were called out at around 2.20pm on Friday to Coombs Woods in Armathwaite by the North West Ambulance Service after a 12-year-old mountain biker had come off their bike and sustained a head injury after an impact with a tree.
The Great North Air Ambulance was also called out to assist with the incident.
Penrith Mountain Rescue Team Helped to evacuate the young man from the steep woodland. Eleven Team members from the Penrith Mountain Rescue Team were deployed in the call-out that last aged 2.5 hours and were able to assist, bringing the casualty up the slope via a stretcher back to the roadside where he was transported for further treatment by an ambulance.
On Saturday at around 6pm, the team was called to Knock Fell in the North Pennines after a walker suffered a suspected broken ankle while descending the Pennine Way towards Dufton.
Thirteen members of Penrith Mountain Rescue Team along with five colleagues from Kirkby Stephen team, used a farm track to get close to the casualty who was given pain relief and had their leg splinted before being stretchered across to Great Dun Fell where they were handed over to an NWAS ambulance for further treatment in a rescue lasting five hours.
Three members of the Penrith Mountain Rescue Team have also been involved in the search for Jenny Hall in County Durham over the last week.
photos by Penrith Mountain Rescue Team.
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