EMERGENCY crews including air ambulance and mountain rescue personnel were called to Roseberry Topping yesterday after a woman collapsed while walking.
The 67-year-old, from Stockton, had been hiking with family members when she became ill and collapsed on a path in the woods below the summit.
A doctor who was out walking initially stopped to help the woman before Yorkshire Ambulance Service was called to the scene, just before noon yesterday.
They called on Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team for assistance and volunteer team members, including two doctors, made their way to the scene and started treatment of the casualty. She was then placed on a specialist mountain rescue stretcher.
A Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team spokesperson said: "By this stage a Great North Air Ambulance helicopter had been deployed and landed near to the shooting box below Roseberry Topping so the mountain rescue volunteers carried the casualty approximately 300m uphill to meet them.
"Not a particularly long or difficult route but very warm for the team members as they were wearing protective clothing and PPE in line with their current Covid-19 protocol for all rescues.
"After a further period of treatment by the doctors and helicopter crew it was decided that by then the woman did not require helicopter evacuation, so the team carried her a short distance across farmland to a waiting ambulance which took her to hospital for further assessment and treatment."
In total, 19 members of the rescue team were involved with the two and a half hour rescue with an additional volunteer co-ordinating remotely.
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