A WALKER was rescued from Roseberry Topping after stumbling and suffering a suspected broken leg.

Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) was called out by police at 12.15pm on Monday (June 4) after a 63-year-old woman from Hutton Ruby stumbled and injured her ankle on the peak near Great Ayton.

She had been out walking with a group of friends when she fell in the thick fog. Luckily, another group of walkers came across her which included nurses from York. They cared for her until the rescuers arrived.

A group of 14 mountain rescue volunteers drove with two Land Rover ambulances to a position near the site and found the group on a steep path on the South-East side of Roseberry Topping, beyond the disused Roseberry Mines.

The Great Ayton-based rescue team posted on Facebook: “Team members gave her pain relief and treated her lower leg injury, before carrying her on our stretcher down the slope to our Land Rover. We than transported her back to Aireyholme Farm where she was handed over to YAS Yorkshire Ambulance Service, then transported to James Cook Hospital.”

The rescue lasted an hour and 45 minutes.