North Yorkshire Police called CRO after someone, believed to be dead, was seen on the ground beneath Malham Cove. A small team searched a ledge above the site, then the Cove edge itself for personal effects. Once police formalities had been concluded, the deceased was stretchered to a team Land

Cumbria Police received a call for help from a couple in a car, stranded in snow. Initial location information was vague, but seemed to be in Deepdale, in the Parish of Dent. When called, the CRO duty controller asked a local member to investigate as PhoneFind messages were going unanswered.

North Yorkshire Police called CRO following a report of someone threatening self-harm. Team members met in Malham car park and  were organising into search groups when they learned that the police had found the ‘missing’ person, unharmed. The team stood down. Volunteer hours: 30  

A walker (m, 58) beginning the descent from Little Ingleborough to Gaping Gill tripped on a protruding rock. In falling forward with arms outstretched, he suffered a suspected shoulder dislocation. The walking group leader rang 999, asked for ‘police’, then ‘mountain rescue’ and gave an accurate ten-figure grid reference. He

A walker (m85) heading towards Austwick on the track from Feizor collapsed due to a suspected cardiac arrest. Despite the best efforts of the walker’s companion, Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and CRO, all attempts to revive the walker were sadly unsuccessful.               

A Border Collie dog fell 25 or 30m from the top of Giggleswick Quarry, landing on a ledge which is covered in loose rock. NYF&RS’s Settle firefighters attended, then members of CRO were called. When one member began roping down, the edge was found to be rather loose, so there

Three Three Peaks walkers (all m, 23) said they were lost in the dark, with one of their party struggling to walk, coming off Ingleborough. They said they thought they were about a mile from Horton. The team’s PhoneFind app put them in exactly the same location as in incident

Two Three Peaks walkers (f, 26; f, 22) told NYP that they were lost in the dark and low cloud, coming from Ingleborough down to Horton. The description suggested that, in the poor visibility, they had lost the path where it crosses an area of surface limestone between Sulber Nick

UWFRA called CRO when a man reported three of his family (wife, son and a friend) overdue on a walk over Fountains Fell in the dark and poor visibility because of low cloud and drizzle. The Pennine Way over Fountains is the boundary between the teams. The CRO duty controller

A heavily pregnant ewe was stranded on a ledge at the Western end of Warrendale Knotts, above Settle. The farmer left it, hoping it would self-rescue when it became hungry, but there seemed to be enough grazing to keep it going. After three days, he called CRO via North Yorkshire