RESCUERS were called out after a 60-year-old climber plunged 40 feet at the Thirlmere valley.
Rescuers attended the incident on the south crag of Castle Rock of Triermain at around 5.50pm yesterday.
A rescue team spokesman said : "The rock protection the man had placed while climbing ripped out."
The spokesman said the man hit the ground before tumbling down a steep slope, stopping when his rope became tight.
The man was placed on a vacuum mattress and lifted up the slope, then flown by air ambulance to hospital in Preston.
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