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Images from the scene showed a steep crag overlooking the riverbed where searchers were scrambling over boulders.

A climber was airlifted to hospital after slipping and falling from a crag in Derbyshire.

The mountain rescue team said the man was stretchered to the top of the crag and collected by the air ambulance.

“Index closely approximates what you would find on some of the biggest mountains in the world,” said Washington Climbers Coalition communications director Chris Kalman, author of “The Index Town Walls: A Guide to Washington’s Finest Crag.”

“This is a really important crag not just in Washington but in the U.S.”