Stranded walkers in pike rescue

Mountain rescuers spent three hours trying to find two walkers who got into difficulties while doing the three peaks challenge in Cumbria.

The Wasdale rescue team were called in the early hours of Saturday morning in atrocious weather to Piers Gill on Scafell Pike.

The two men were eventually found stranded near the top of the Gill.

A spokesman for the rescuers said too many people are trying to climb the fell without the right equipment.