Man rescued and airlifted to hospital after 20-foot embankment fall near Whitby

Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team (CMRT) were called after reports of a man falling down an embankment on farmland between Ugthorpe and Whitby at 11.02am on Wednesday December 28.

The man had slipped and fallen about 20 feet into a ravine and the edge of a stream, at the bottom of a gully.

Eight CMRT crew members were sent to the incident in two Land Rovers, while others made their way separately to Mulgrave Farm.

A Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team spokesperson said: “He was wet, very cold and had sustained various injuries including to his lower leg.”

After being treated by air ambulance crews, the man was placed on a mountain rescue stretcher with a vacuum mattress and casualty bag.

The man was then lifted from the gully using a back-up rope system to the top of the embankment, before being carried by rescue workers about 100 metres to a helicopter, which took the casualty to hospital.

In total, 20 crew members were involved for more than two hours as part of the rescue operation.