A mountain biker (m, 58), descending a track at speed, was thrown over the bike’s handlebars into a wooded area and hit a tree before coming to earth. Bowland Pennine MRT and the North West Air Ambulance set off to deal with the incident but with many members on holiday

A Three Peaks walker (m, 55) suffered a knee injury – possibly caused by the repeated pounding of his feet on the hardened path surfaces (?) – a little way down the steep descent from the top of Whernside, so that he was unable to continue walking.  He called North

North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance in finding someone about whose welfare concern had been expressed and who was understood to be at Malham Cove. Team members gathered in Malham car park to await a briefing, but then NYP officers found the misper in Malham village, safe but very

A caller to North Yorkshire Police reported three cavers (all m) several hours overdue from a trip into Gaping Gill, The CRO duty controller was unable to contact members of the caving club which organises the August winch meet, to ask whether they had any knowledge of the mispers, so

A walker (f, 54) slipped and sustained a suspected broken ankle on the path from Water Sinks, just before it joins the path down into ‘the Dry Valley’, leading to Malham Cove. A small team of CRO members walked down from Langscar Gate, administered pain relief, splinted the leg, lifted

A lone trail-riding motorcyclist (m, 61) called the ambulance service, ‘complaining of shoulder, rib and collar-bone injuries’ after he came off his motorcycle on the Turbary Road, near Kail Pot, in Kingsdale. YAS called CRO, but possibly because the caller’s mobile phone had to roam to a different network to