03/11/16 ***WITH VIDEO*** Usually, it's injured hikers needing a ride in an air ambulance off Kinder Scout’s badly-eroded footpaths, but this time a
03/11/16 ***WITH VIDEO*** Usually, it's injured hikers needing a ride in an air ambulance off Kinder Scout’s badly-eroded footpaths, but this time a helicopter crew was used to carry more than 40 tonnes of rock up the Peak District's only mountain to repair a popular walking route before it became too dangerous to use. ***FULL STORY HERE: *** It was the only way to get the locally-quarried gritstone to the upper flanks of the 636m high peak near the start of the Pennine Way and took the helicopter some 33 journeys to and from the nearby village of Edale to complete. The total cost to fully repair the stretch of damaged footpath below the Ringing Roger rock outcrop is around £17,000 but it is one of the most popular routes to the Kinder Scout plateau. All Rights Reserved: F Stop Press Ltd. +44(0)1773 550665
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