A trail runner fell and injured himself whilst taking part in a 50 mile ultra event that started in Malham village and encompassed the Yorkshire Dales three-peaks. During his descent from the summit of Whernside, the runner lost his footing on steep ground, tumbled over rocks and collided with a

A walker (f, 59) slipped on wet rock alongside Fell Beck, a few metres before it falls into Gaping Gill. There was initial confusion when she was reported to be ‘inside Gaping Gill caves’ and to have broken(?) her wrist, but once her location on the surface was confirmed, team

A caver advised CRO, by a roundabout route, that he had found a sheep trapped in a gryke at Middle Scar near Ribblehead. The local CRO controller joined him and, together, they hoisted the animal onto the surface, unharmed.

As the members involved in incident no 26 were descending, they were asked to help two more walkers to assist a companion who had also aggravated existing knee and ankle injuries. They were assisted down to the Honda Pioneer, which returned them to the road head. In shuttling injured walkers

After the last runner had passed through the summit of Whernside, the CRO members who had been patrolling there began their descent towards Bruntscar, but soon came across an ascending party of four Three Peaks walkers, one of whom (m, 20) was struggling to walk. Earlier, he had sustained a

While CRO members were standing by for an update on ‘the mystery of the missing runner’. RAYNET / Race Control advised that one of their marshals had encountered an injured walker and his injured son near the top of Horton Scar Lane (‘the Hull Pot track’). The father had been

A visitor (f, ) slipped, sustaining an ankle injury, in Quarry Wood, towards the end of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Team members walked in from Storrs Common and, having given mild pain-relief and splinted the lower leg, lifted the casualty in an insulated casualty bag onto a wheeled stretcher. She

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,