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Father-and-son Peak District outing ends in injury

Gavin Bevis
BBC News, Derby
Edale Mountain Rescue Team Mountain rescuers wearing blue and red jackets carry an injured man down a hill on a stretcherEdale Mountain Rescue Team
A mountain rescue team helped to carry the man down the hill

A father-and-son day out in the Peak District ended in disaster when the dad suffered an ankle injury in a fall and needed help from a mountain rescue team.

The pair had been bouldering around Stanage Edge at about 17:00 BST on Saturday when the father fell from Crescent Arete above Stanage Plantation.

Edale Mountain Rescue Team attended and treated the injury before carrying the man on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance.

The team praised the son for providing first aid to his father prior to their arrival.

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