A 60-year-old Auckland woman with serious injuries was rescued from Urewera National Park this morning.
She was flown to Hawke's Bay Hospital after a distress beacon was activated in the southern Urewera National Park at around 11am this morning.
The tramping party of three were traversing a washout on the track when the patient slipped and fell about 40 metres down a steep shale slope, sustaining injuries to her head, neck, chest and ankles in the fall.
The location was too dangerous for the remainder of the tramping party to reach the woman and they activated their Personal Locator Beacon.
The woman is currently being assessed in the Hawke's Bay Hospital emergency department.