If he is sitting up that suggests limited damage to his back, excellent news! I must admit, I read this and had a cold chill run over me .... I came down the Parachute in very wet and slippy conditions on Friday night (on my abortive BG attempt) following the route that Tom Phillips mentions and was pretty mortified when I read this, particularly as one of my support runners hadn't done it before.

Still, it does sound like it was one of those accidents that could have happened to anyone, particularly so far down where the incline is much less steep. Hope Mark continues to improve.


Quote Originally Posted by gk4 View Post
The accident actually happened right at the end of Gate Gill, probably no more than 200m from the gate off the fell. We knew that we had strayed into the gully from our intended path along the ridge, but it seemed as easy to keep going down rather than try to get back to the Hall's Ridge path; we could see where we were going and were through the worst part. Three of us were carrying gear, as we had planned to do the round over a couple of days, camping out half way round. Mark was only running leg 1, never having been to Great Calva before, and fell right at the end of the valley, just before he would have left us to run back to Keswick. None of us saw what actually happened, but we understand, indirectly, that he is sitting up and drinking tea (thankfully a lot better than we had been led to expect). Needless to say the recue people really performed well; many thanks to them.