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  • INCIDENT 48/2022 JUN 29th WED. 13.17 LITTLE INGLEBOROUGH, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Having experienced inclement weather on the summit of Ingleborough, a walker (m, 26) began to descend the stone-stepped path from Little Ingleborough towards Gaping Gill, but turned an ankle, not far below the ridge. He was in considerable pain and could not stand, when a party* of three other walkers

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  • INCIDENT 47/2022 JUN 28th TUE. 15.11 TOP OF MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    After a rain shower, a walker (f, 63) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, sustaining an ankle injury. Having transported YAS paramedics to the casualty site so that they might attend to the injured visitor, team members evacuated her to a team Land Rover on

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  • INCIDENT 34/2022 MAY 18th WED. 15.07 IVY BUTTRESS, COMMON SCARS , LAWKLAND, NORTH YORKSHIRE (a.k.a. ‘GIGGLESWICK NORTH’) – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Climbing Rescue / Mountain Rescue

    A climber (f, 54) fell from above her highest anchor, catching one foot on a ledge and sustaining a suspected ankle fracture on Ivy Buttress, Giggleswick North. Arriving on scene, YAS paramedics asked that CRO be called. Following their assessment, a vacuum splint was applied and team members lifted the

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  • INCIDENT 32/2022 MAY 14th SAT. 09.48 THE ALLOTMENT, INGLEBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (f, 48) slipped on the path from Sulber to Ingleborough, twisting one ankle and landing badly on the other foot. As she could not stand and was in significant pain with any movement, her companions insulated her and called North Yorkshire Police. Meanwhile, she took her own analgesics.

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  • INCIDENT 27/2022 SAME DAY 13.30 WHERNSIDE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    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

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  • INCIDENT 25/2022 APRIL 30th SAT. 12.00 HORTON SCAR LANE, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    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

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  • INCIDENT 24/2022 – APRIL 18th Mon 16.55 Quarry Wood, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Ingleton,  North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    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

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  • INCIDENT 18/2022 – MARCH 31st Thu 11.55 Path near Langscar Gate, Malham, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (f, 69) slipped on wet snow on the path between Langscar Gate and the top of Watlowes (‘Dry Valley’), Malham, injuring an ankle, so that she could not stand. Team members splinted the ankle then took her by wheeled stretcher to a team Land Rover, waiting at the

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  • INCIDENT 17/2022 – MARCH 22nd Tue 11.38 Near Cleatop Park, Settle, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (f, 55) slipped, twisting her knee so that she could not stand again, in a field to the North East of Cleatop Park, South of Settle. The call had gone to Cleveland MRT, who re-routed it to CRO. When team members arrived at the casualty site, the YAA

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  • INCIDENT 87/2021 – NOVEMBER 28th SUN. 22.58  FIELD OPPOSITE TAITLANDS, (FORMER YOUTH HOSTEL), STAINFORTH – LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Ambulance Assist / Local Support Rescue

    Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked for CRO’s assistance following an accident where someone (f, 51), sledging down a slope, collided with a wall, sustaining a serious ankle injury. When team members arrived, the ambulance paramedics had just helped the patient into the road ambulance and were treating her injury. Members and

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