A visitor (f, 60) fell, sustaining a knee injury, ‘between falls five and six at the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail’. As CRO controllers don’t have the falls numbered, a Phonefind text sent to her husband’s phone revealed their position as the path below Baxengill Gorge. Team members met at the Beezleys

When an alert beacon was activated, the owner’s home contact called her local Police, who forwarded the alert to North Yorkshire Police. The beacon indicated the Robin Proctor’s Scar area, so the CRO duty controller called available members to the team base, in Clapham. One member replied that he was

UWFRA forwarded a call from YAS for a walker (m, 30) who had sustained a knee injury while walking alongside Gordale Beck, downstream of Gordale Scar. His location was confirmed using the Phonefind app.  As he was unable to put weight on the injured leg, team members administered pain relief,

A walker (f, 74) tripped on the beck-side path to the foot of Malham Cove, falling forwards. Putting her hands up to arrest the fall and protect her face resulted in an injury to one shoulder / upper arm. The main group of team members arrived on scene at the

A walker (f, 69) slipped on wet snow on the path between Langscar Gate and the top of Watlowes (‘Dry Valley’), Malham, injuring an ankle, so that she could not stand. Team members splinted the ankle then took her by wheeled stretcher to a team Land Rover, waiting at the

A walker (f, 55) slipped, twisting her knee so that she could not stand again, in a field to the North East of Cleatop Park, South of Settle. The call had gone to Cleveland MRT, who re-routed it to CRO. When team members arrived at the casualty site, the YAA

Three Three Peaks walkers (m,33; m,32; m,31) reported themselves lost on Ingleborough. Information from the 999 operating company put them on Park Fell (They had turned left at the hand-gate above Humphrey Bottom.), then a CRO PhoneFind message had them descending towards Whit-a-Green, near Selside. An off-duty controller walked up

A walker (f,67) slipped on mud and sustained an injury to her right ankle. Team members based in the Ribblesdale area responded with CRO2 and our all terrain vehicle, CRO4. Prior to the team’s arrival, a member of a neighbouring team, and his Doctor wife, happened across the incident and

As a CRO controller was out for a walk, he came across a visitor (f, 73) who had fainted on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail above Pecca Falls. She had recovered sufficiently to reach the refreshment cabin, but could go no further. When the appropriate team vehicle arrived (This was CRO

A lone, novice walker (m, 16) rang NYP to say that he was lost near Gaping Gill. He had been out for six hours and was getting cold, although he said he was in appropriate clothing. With 10% battery on his phone, the call dropped out before the Force Control