A BOG with a taste for tourists engulfed its second victim when a walker had to be dramatically rescued from its sticky grip.

Sandra Gonzales Parkinson was walking the Fairfield Horseshoe with her husband and friends when a wrong step left her chin deep in mud and still sinking.

The 37-year-old from Ripon told the Gazette she was somewhere between Low and High Pike the same spot where a London man had to be rescued recently when she was swallowed up by the sodden ground.

"I stepped on what I thought was firm ground and I sank until my ankles," she said. "I began to worry when, as I tried to pull myself out, I went in up to my waist. As I moved again I was up to my neck in cold mud. It all happened within seconds."

As she continued to sink she screamed for help, but her husband Stephen was at least 100 yards ahead.

"I was so shocked it's hard to remember exactly what happened," she said. "I know I yelled and the next thing three men who were walking behind me tried to pull me out. It felt like they were pulling my arms off but on the third attempt they managed to get me free."

Shocked and shaken, the British Telecom senior print manager said "Shackleton spirit" and a clean change of clothes had helped her to continue the walk.

However, it was only when the group got back to the guesthouse she discovered she wasn't the first to be mired.

"I realised by the description in The Westmorland Gazette that I'd fallen in the same bog as the other man "I was so shaken by the experience that it's put me off I was due to go walking with some girlfriends but I'm not so sure now. I dread to think what would have happened if I had been on my own. We saw a lot of women walking on their own and if they fell in they wouldn't stand a chance. I think something should be done to warn others."

Last week Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team warned walkers to test wet ground with a walking pole before forging ahead, although team leader Nick Verrall remained sceptical about the latest incident.

"I think it sounds a bit far-fetched there's no deep puddles like that up there. I've certainly never known anything like it," he said. "If people keep to the paths up there they should stay fairly safe if you stray off path it is a bit boggy."

l Earlier this week Kendal man Andrew Cross stepped forward as the stranger who rescued the London walker Nigel Wright, who has a second home in Ambleside, from the bog two weeks ago.