A BIG rescue operation was mounted after a woman fell on a moor above Marsden.
She suffered serious ankle injuries when she stumbled while walking with family and friends on the Packhorse Trail above Marsden on Saturday afternoon.
A member of the group used a mobile phone to ring 999 and alert the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and the Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Service.
Peter Phillips, a spokesman for the rescue team, said: “The family were unsure of their exact location on the moors.
“Fortunately for them members of a Scout group walking along the path found them and provided a shelter tent to keep them safe.
“The party were then spotted by a team from the Holme Valley unit who saw the brightly-coloured tent from the high point of Buckstones car park.
“Mountain Rescue personnel carried out initial treatment and care for the ankle injury and for mild hypothermia until paramedics arrived at the scene.
“The incident was located about a mile from the nearest road so the Yorkshire Air Ambulance was called and flew in to evacuate the woman to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.”
