Royal Marines help climber in Lake District

Two Royal Marines helped rescue a climber who had fallen 65ft down a Lake District fell.

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Trafford and veteran Tris Finn were planning to summit Blencathra via Sharp Edge on the second day of their trip to the national park, but were told by a fellow climber that someone had fallen into a gully and that the Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) from Keswick had been called.

“Sizing up the situation and drawing on vast commando experience and training, Tris and Mick determined they were able to reach the fallen climber – despite extremely slippery conditions. On getting to the female casualty, nothing immediately indicated anything life-threatening, but she’d temporarily lost consciousness in the fall and had sustained a number of other injuries. 

Drawing on their training, experience and emergency equipment in their daysacks, Mick provided casualty care, including treatment for shock and prevention of hypothermia, whilst Tris coordinated with the Mountain Rescue Team and the paramedic at the MRT’s base. The pair knew they weren’t equipped to extract a casualty from this precarious position, and that it would be a number of hours until MRT arrived, so settled in, monitored the casualty and helped keep her spirits up.”

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