A walker visiting a popular Peak District attraction with friends has died after sustaining a "serious head injury" during a fall. Despite the efforts of a mountain rescue team and ambulance crew, the walker was pronounced dead at the scene on Saturday (April 9).
Emergency services had been called to a footpath above Speedwell Cavern in Castleton at around 7pm to reports of a walker having fallen. They had fallen a distance down a hill and had initially been left unconscious with a head injury.
But the Edale Mountain Rescue team, in a Facebook post on the incident, confirmed the walker was later pronounced dead at the scene, the Manchester Evening News reports. The team said they had been contacted by the East Midlands Ambulance Service about the incident.
