As members were arriving at the Giggleswick incident (No. 27), the YAS Emergency Operations Centre contacted CRO again, this time with a request to go to the aid of a visitor (f, 45) who had injured an ankle when she slipped on wet rocks, a little way below Thornton Force
A climber (m, 27) is believed to have been descending around the side of the main climbing area on Giggleswick Scar (South) when he sustained a head injury, caused by a falling rock. His climbing partner called for help and administered what first aid she could on the steep, rocky,
As team members were leaving Pen y ghent, NYP advised that two walkers (f, f) on the Three Peaks Walk had reported themselves lost but uninjured on Ingleborough and with daylight fading. NYP's Force Control Room staff were able to provide a location, which translated as being between Gaping Gill
A walker (m, 54) slipped on the path from the top of Horton Scar Lane to Pen y ghent (below the bend to 'the miners' track'), sustaining an ankle injury, which he bore with stoicism, throughout. CRO 4, the team's Honda Pioneer, led the way up Horton Scar Lane, carrying
A visitor (m, 37) slipped on the path below Thornton Force and fell, sustaining an extremely painful ankle injury. Team members administered pain relief, splinted the lower leg then carried the casualty, by stretcher, to a team Land Rover. This took him to the road-head to await a YAS road
Having waited five days for a sheep to leave its ledge and wander up the quarry face to graze the field at the top, a farmer called for help. A small team lowered one member down to the ledge with a bag of sheep-nuts in one hand and a large
The proprietrix of a hotel in Wharfedale expressed concern that two residents who had left to start the Three Peaks at 07.30, saying they would return for dinner by 20.00, had not returned. With no knowledge of their car make or registration mark or their intended start-point and route, then
A climber (f, 23) fell about 10m from the Beezley Crack route (?) on Twisleton Scar, taking her runners with her. She hit her head in the fall, but her helmet saved her head from injury. Although shaken, initially, an ankle injury (unable to bear weight on it) and general
A climber (m) fell from the top of Castlebergh. Two visitors, who had seen him fall, ran down and attempted CPR for about 15 minutes. When the first team member arrived on scene, with a defibrillator, it told them not to shock the patient. The doctor and paramedics from two
A man (59) was reported to be 'at risk', having been missing from home near Pickering since early evening on Monday. Scarborough and Ryedale MRT searched for him through Tuesday night, supported by Cleveland MRT and RAF Leeming MRT. They were joined on Wednesday morning by small teams from CRO,
