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Austwick

  • INCIDENT 03/2026. JANUARY 4th SUN. 13.40 hrs PATH BETWEEN HALE LANE AND OXENBER WOOD, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (f, 72) slipped on the field path below Oxenber Wood, near Wood House, Austwick, sustaining a very painful ankle injury. After assessment, pain relief and splinting of her leg, she was lifted onto the back seats of CRO 4 (Honda Pioneer) and driven to Feizor to meet the

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  • INCIDENT 33/2025. APR 24th THU. 22.56hrs Nr NICK POT SHOOTING HUT, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Two Three Peaks walkers (f, 23; f, 22) reported themselves benighted near the ruinous Nick Pot shooting hut on the route from Ingleborough to Horton in Ribblesdale. The battery of one of their mobile phones was completely flat and the other was failing rapidly; they were using it as a

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  • INCIDENT 19/2025 MAR. 15th SAT. 14.16 POT SCAR and SMEARSETT AREA, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE. 

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    Two walkers expressed concern for another walker who  appeared to be struggling and confused while trying to find a way off the steep ground of Pot Scar and Smearsett Scar. A small ‘hasty party’ of team members ran round and over the area but found no-one. The search was widened

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  • INCIDENT 60/2024. AUGUST 19th MON. 12.02 hrs. NORBER BOULDER-FIELD, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

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    A walker (m, 58) fell from one of the ‘Norber boulders’ (glacial erratics) and sustained a serious ankle injury. As team members arrived at the road-head, an air ambulance was circling overhead. Arriving at the casualty site with a team stretcher (etc) they used it to carry the already ‘packaged’

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  • INCIDENT 55/2023 JUL. 6th THU. 13.32 POT SCAR, FEIZOR, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

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    YAS called CRO when a climber (m, 54) fell a short distance (<2m?) onto rocks at Pot Scar, Feizor. Paramedics assessed him and gave pain relief for a shoulder injury. Team members gave him further pain relief, lifting him onto a vacuum mattress to immobilise him, as a precaution. A

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  • INCIDENT 22/2022 – APRIL 17th Sun 11.42 Robin Proctor’s Scar, Austwick,  North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

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    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

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  • INCIDENT 74/2021 – SEPTEMBER 21st TUE. 11.20 – Off THWAITE LANE, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

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    YAS called CRO when a walker (f, 45) was reported to have been ‘trampled by cows’ in a field, just off Thwaite Lane, between Clapham and Austwick. When the first team members arrived, they found two road ambulances and an air ambulance already on scene with the paramedics assessing the

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