A 61 year-old woman was taken to hospital by air ambulance following a fall on the Buttermere lakeshore path.
The woman fell on a rock step on Saturday and was treated by the Great North Air Ambulance doctor and paramedic before being carried to the helicopter by Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team.
The woman was flown to the Cumberland Infirmary with suspected spinal injuries.
This week the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team are celebrating their 60th anniversary and looking back on countless lives saved and after six decades of public service.
Ryan Dollard has this report:
Jim Coyle and John Dempster have both been part of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team for more than fifty years:
Mike Park from the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the rescue service along with his colleagues.
He told ITV Border why the service is so important to the town:
This morning veterans and some of the current team will met to celebrate six decades of life saving on the fells. The team believe they have now performed more than 1,000 rescues with well over half coming in the last 15 years as walking has become increasingly popular.
A 41 year-old man from Cumbria was rescued by Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team when he became disorientated in cloud on Blake Fell in the Lake District.
The walker got into trouble on his descent. He was escorted off the fell and helped to his car.
A total of 31 team members went out to find him, they were called at 3:15pm on Saturday 5th January.
A 'vulnerable' 40 year-old woman from the Workington area was found safe and well in the early hours of this morning after becoming disorientated after leaving her residential home.
The woman, who has learning difficulties, was found by members of the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team a short distance from where she disappeared.
– Cumbria Police spokesman"The lady was reported missing at 18:16, we called in the Mountain Rescue team shortly after midnight to aid with the search. She has learning difficulties and was vulnerable.
The mountain rescue team found her a few hours later and she was apparently in good spirits and said she had become stranded by the river and disorientated. She was cold and wet and was thankfully returned to her home."
In total 21 members of Cockermouth MRT helped the police with the search. They returned to base at 3am.
The Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team were called out to rescue a paraglider who was stuck on ice, near the summit of Grasmoor.
Whilst they were making their way to the paraglider, a second call came from a lady who had slipped and injured her leg.
The 53-year-old lady from the north east, slipped whilst climbing down a steep embankment on her way down from Robison to Buttermere Moss.
The team treated her before she was carried down on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance.
The stranded paraglider was uninjured but had to be lowered down snow slopes in the Red Gill area of Grasmoor.
19 member of the CMRT attended the two callouts, and the Keswick mountain rescue team assisted with the second rescue.