UPDATE: |Walker injured in Lake District fall tells mountain rescuers ‘My dog pushed me’ News

The man suffered a gash to the head after slipping down a steep fell

A walker who was injured while falling from a steep Lake District crag told mountain rescuers his dog Benji ‘pushed him’.

The man fell down the ‘very steep’ descent from Eagle Crag on Good Friday afternoon. He said he had gone to lift Benji down a steep step, but the dog ‘pushed me’ sending him tumbling down the hillside.

Luckily his fall was broken by a ledge, but he did suffer a gash to his head. After being alerted by a passing walker, volunteers from Keswick Mountain Rescue were called to help.

KMRT said the man told rescuers, with a smile, that ‘it was the dog’s fault, he pushed me’.

A spokesperson for KMRT said: “Many thanks to the passing walker who showed us the way to the casualty. A team medic scrambled up to the man and treated his wound whilst a rope was rigged from above to allow a protected scramble back up for a walk off down a better path.

“By the time the team reached the bottom of the hill Benji had long since been forgiven!”

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