Woman suffers double break to ankle in fall in Cairngorms
A woman from Perth had to be stretchered off the Cairngorms after suffering a double break to her ankle whilst walking in the Chalamain Gap yesterday.
Ten members of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team were involved in the three-hour lift following the call-out at around 3.30pm.
The woman had been walking with her father and a friend when she fell in the notoriously rocky pass.
But she walked on into the Lairig Ghru before her injury became too severe and the rescuers were alerted.
Deputy leader Willie Anderson said: "The woman was walking with two men and I think one of them was here father.
"They had come through the Chalamain Gap and she tripped and it transpired that she has broken her ankle in two places.
"She had managed to hobble on further but then the pain became too much.
"She was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness and she was x-rayed and it was confirmed her ankle is broken in two places and has gone back to Perth for the operation."
The rescue team parked up at Rothiemurchus Lodge at Glenmore to reach the casualty at the scene around three kilometres away and had returned with her by around 6.30pm.
Mr Anderson said that it had been quite a challenging stretcher lift as the team was a little light on numbers given the time of year.
He joked: "There are a few folk suffering today!"
