LLRBA teenager has been rescued after being injured on the West Highland Way, in the same location where three others have fallen in recent weeks.
Loch Lomond Rescue Boat was called to reports of an injured 19-year-old walker from Germany who had sustained an ankle injury just north of I Vow Island on the east side of Loch Lomond around 5pm on Monday.
The crew was able to strap the woman’s ankle and move her onto the boat to be transferred to Inverglus.
The teenager was then handed over to the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service for further treatment.
The call out is the third in less than a month to the same area where three walkers fell from a height, with two landing on rocks.
The West Highland Way stretches 96 miles from Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire to Fort William in the Highlands and is popular with hikers.
Earlier this year, a number of walkers hiking along the route fell ill with sickness and diarrhoea after drinking from rivers.
Nine of those who reported being ill all drank water from the rivers near Balmaha, despite filtering it.
Three of those drank from The Burn of Mar at the back of Conic Hill, and rangers warned that there is a livestock upstream in the region.
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