A DOG walker has been rescued after falling over 10 metres down a ravine in North Yorkshire.

Scarborough & Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team (SRMRT) were called to reports of the woman who had followed her dog over the rock face on the circular Bridestones walk in Dalby Forest at 11.57am on Wednesday.

A spokesperson for SRMRT said: "In what was going to be a technical rope rescue and while assessing the patients condition we requested further help from Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Dalby Forest - Forestry England Rangers.

"The uninjured dog was quickly restrained and recovered to safe ground by team members while treatment of the lady continued.

"Upon assessing her injuries and working with paramedics from the air ambulance we administered pain relief before protecting the patient in a vacuum mattress.

"While this was going on other team members and Rangers from Forest England rigged a rope system to haul the casualty up a vertical rock face to the path in one of our Bell stretchers.

"Once safely extracted we carried the lady back to one of vehicles to transport her to the waiting air ambulance and evacuation to definitive medical care.

We had 16 team member deployed for five and a half hours and wish the lady a speedy recovery."