Last updated at 10:25, Tuesday, 06 January 2009

TWO people died in separate incidents in the Lake District fells.

A 35-year-old woman who died after falling from a crag on Great Gable on Friday afternoon has been named by police as Kirsty Densham, an experienced mountaineer from Oxford.

She was walking with two friends at Westmoreland Crag on Great Gable when she fell.

Wasdale Mountain Rescue were called to the scene and a helicopter from RAF Boulmer took her to West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven where she was pronounced dead.

Her relatives have been informed.

Sixteen team members attended the incident and were finished by around 8.30pm.

In a separate incident, David Higson, 50, from Sale in Cheshire, collapsed and died on the route to Beetham Fell, near Beetham.

Police received a call for help at 1.30pm on Friday and members of Kendal Mountain Rescue Team were called out.

A Kendal Mountain Rescue Team incident statement said: “The team was paged by the police and asked to assist the county ambulance service with a collapsed male on the path through Longtail Wood (between Beetham and Storth).

“When we arrived at the scene First Responders and the ambulance crew had been joined by the crew from the Great North Air Ambulance and CPR was being administered to the casualty.

“With the assistance of team members the casualty was stretchered down the path to the waiting ambulance for onward transfer to the helicopter.

“Shortly after we reached the ambulance, however, the doctor from the air ambulance confirmed that the man had passed away. A sad start to the New Year.”

First published at 12:27, Monday, 05 January 2009
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