A climber whose hand was crushed by a falling boulder in the Cairngorms has left hospital.

The man was climbing Pygmy Ridge on Sunday afternoon when the rock came loose and he fell.

The four square metre rock landed on his hand, leaving it badly injured. Despite this he was able to walk off the mountain unaided.

He was later checked over in hospital and will need surgery to repair the damage to his hand.

A spokesman for Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team said: "We were called to assist a climber.

"We deployed a small team with a vehicle but the injured party made their own way off."

In 2014, climber Jane Doole was killed in a rockfall on Pygmy Ridge, on Coire an t-Sneachda.

Following her death, Mountaineering Scotland raised serious concerns about the state of the cliffs there.