Buxton Mountain Rescue Team pull injured walker to safety

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team at the scene.Buxton Mountain Rescue Team at the scene.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team at the scene.
The Buxton Mountain Rescue team pulled an injured walker to safety after she slipped and became injured.

The 28-year-old woman was descending towards Cumberland Brook in Wildboarclough when she slipped and sustained a lower leg injury which immobilised her.

16 team members attended the scene and transferred the woman to a mountain rescue stretcher before leaving her in the care of North West Ambulance Service.

The woman, from Grappenhall in Warrington, was transferred to Macclesfield Hospital for further treatment.