Man rescued after falling 75ft down crag at Sutton Bank

Photo: Cleveland MRT.

A man was rescued after falling 75ft down a crag at Sutton Bank on Christmas Eve.

The alert was raised after the man’s cries were heard by a dog walker below the injured man.

The dog walker climbed up to the man, who had come to rest against a tree after the fall north of Sutton Bank, and then called for an ambulance.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and volunteers from Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team attended the incident.

A spokesperson for Cleveland MRT said: “Personnel were alerted with some being deployed in a team Land Rover but most making their way to an RV-point in their own vehicles.

“The closest team member was asked to go direct to the scene, establishing a route in over farmland and meeting up with the air ambulance crew who by then had landed.

“The light was starting to fail as other yeam members arrived.

“They took with them medical and other equipment – owing to the casualty’s location being on a steep, muddy hillside they set up a rope system to help in getting down to him and to later carry him back up.”

A Maritime and Coastguard Agency helicopter was also called to help which the casualty out.

The spokesperson added: “When everything was in place our team members carried the casualty part-way up the hillside in the Coastguard stretcher, to a point at which the helicopter was able to winch him up and then across to a field at the top, adjacent to the Cleveland Way path.

“From there he was carried by other Team members to the waiting air ambulance for onward transport to hospital.

“We wish him well for his recovery.”

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