Mountain biker with bad leg injuries rescued by Oldham Mountain Rescue Team

A male mountain biker who had come off his bike on a track running down off Alphin Pike in Greenfield sustained bad injuries to his lower leg.

The man had fallen on a steep and exceptionally slippery part of the hill, and a carry down on stretcher would have been quite precarious for the casualty and his rescuers.

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team therefore requested assistance from the Coastguard Search & Rescue service to winch the casualty safely aboard their helicopter and transfer him to the bottom of the hill to a waiting ambulance for transfer to hospital.