A woman was airlifted to hospital after falling more than 98ft during a hillwalk on New Year’s Day. The hiker seriously injured her leg after losing her footing and slipping on an icy patch on a hill above Loch Muick in Aberdeenshire. Loch Muick is part of the Balmoral Estate, which is also home to the Royal Family’s Balmoral Castle. The young woman was one of two couples from Glasgow that had stayed overnight in a bothy near the Spittal of Glen Muick. A multi-agency rescue operation was launched following her tumble shortly after 1pm on Monday. The callout was the first of the year for Braemar Mountain Rescue Team (MRT), which saw two volunteers scramble to the scene via a vehicle and three other colleagues airlifted to the site via HM Coastguard’s Inverness-based helicopter. Image: Rescue team volunteers escorted the rest of the group to safety. Pic: Braemar Mountain Rescue Team Malcolm MacIntyre, Braemar MRT’s support manager, told Sky News that the woman fell somewhere between 98ft and 131ft. He said: “They were on …