The caving club operating the winch into Gaping Gill called North Yorkshire Police to ask for assistance with a member (m, 46) experiencing an irregular and very rapid heartbeat, on the surface, near GG. A helicopter was requested, but as the North West Air Ambulance approached, the cloud and drizzle
Walkers reported that a lamb was stranded, several metres down the quarry face. As it was on a broad ledge with an ample supply of grass, it was agreed that a small team would visit in the early evening.
A lamb was reported to be stranded, 3m down into a narrow fissure in surface rock, near Ellerbeck. Two team members attended and had little difficulty in rescuing the sheep, which the farmer took to a farm building to aid its recovery. Volunteer hours: 3
A walker (f, 56) slipped and fell, sustaining head and wrist injuries while walking from the Whernside trig point to the beginning of the steep descent to Bruntscar. With some difficulty, the duty controller used PhoneFind to confirm the casualty’s location as being on the ridge. By this time an
A walker (f, 77) slipped and fell, injuring the back of her head. When CRO members arrived, they found her much improved from the original description. Following assessment, it was agreed that the patient could walk to the team Land Rover for the drive to the road-head on the Kingsdale
Three members returned to Deepdale and worked for a further six hours, but were still unsuccessful in reaching the missing dog. Additional volunteer hours: 18
Four cavers were reported to be overdue from a trip through a pothole called Simpson’s Pot. This trip involves the descent the cave by abseiling down drops (pitches), pulling the rope down after each pitch and exiting the cave a lower level – Valley Entrance. Investigation by the CRO Duty
Two terrier dogs had disappeared into a narrow cave fissure and only one had come back out.The dog’s owner and others had already done much work in an attempt to locate the dog and requested the help of CRO. Several CRO team members spent a full day breaking boulders and
A walker (m 29), training for an attempt of the 3 peaks walk, announced to his colleagues “I think my heart has stopped” and promptly collapsed. He was on the path above Brackenbottom Farm and his colleagues started CPR and kept this going until the arrival of Yorkshire Ambulance Service
A walker (F75) tripped and fell on the Ingleton Waterfalls path, not far downstream from Snow Falls. She was reported to have much bleeding from a head wound. The casualty had been well bandaged by another from her group and following an assessment by CRO team members, it was decided
