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  • INCIDENT 05/2023 JAN 28TH SAT. 14.10 GREY SCARS Nr LONG KIN WEST, INGLEBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Two walkers (f, 51; m, 47) called for help when they and their dog lost the path off Ingleborough in thick mist and having lost the mapping app on their phone. The mobile phone company provided the Police with a grid reference, showing them to be near Long Kin West

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  • INCIDENT 95/2022  (Same minute) KINGSDALE ROAD, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Local Support Rescue / Police Assist

    NYP received a call from a delivery driver (m, 28) ‘stuck in snow’ on Thornton Lane. He had described ‘heavy snow and icy conditions’, then added ‘new-born baby on board, as well as partner’. It was not possible to contact the caller to confirm location, so members took a team

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  • ALERT only. DEC. 17th  SAT. 17.18 – INGLEBOROUGH, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – ALERT No 8 of 2022

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    A fell-runner (m, 38) called NYP to say that he was on Ingleborough and stuck in a snowdrift. He said he had 10% phone battery, was in running gear, with a head torch, but no injuries.  24 seconds later, a further call was received and that became incident no 95.

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  • INCIDENT 87/2022  OCT. 30th SUN. 12.13 Nr THORNTON FORCE, INGLETON WATERFALLS TRAIL, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A member of the public reported finding a visitor (m, 37) on the ground, with ‘chest pains, unable to move, poor speech and had been dizzy then fallen’ on the path near Thornton Force. A heart attack was suspected. NYP passed this message to CRO and to YAS. A local

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  • INCIDENT 86/2022  OCT. 18th TUE. 20.44 INGLEBOROUGH (NORTH WEST), INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Two walkers reported themselves ‘lost on Ingleborough after doing Three Peaks and believe both suffering from hypothermia’. They also said that Google maps showed them ‘0.3 miles from Low Sleights’. Their 999 call had gone to Lancashire Constabulary and was passed to NYP to call CRO. Unfortunately, the PhoneFind app

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  • INCIDENT 81/2022  (same day). 19.33 NEWBY MOSS, CLAPHAM cum NEWBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Two Three Peaks walkers (f, 39 and 34) reported themselves lost, coming off Ingleborough, with one torch and only one of their mobile phones still working as darkness fell. The duty controller sent them a PhoneFind text message and their response placed them on Newby Moss on the route down

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  • INCIDENT 70/2022  AUG. 29th MON. 18.14 WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    An aspirant Three Peaks walker (f, 23) was reported to be uninjured but ‘fatigued, unable to make it back down’, three quarters of a mile from the summit of Whernside on the North side. The reporting person, having been advised of the party’s options by the duty controller, agreed to

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  • INCIDENT 16/2022 – MARCH 19th Sat 19.55 Park Fell, Ingleborough, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Three Three Peaks walkers (m,33; m,32; m,31) reported themselves lost on Ingleborough. Information from the 999 operating company put them on Park Fell (They had turned left at the hand-gate above Humphrey Bottom.), then a CRO PhoneFind message had them descending towards Whit-a-Green, near Selside. An off-duty controller walked up

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  • INCIDENT 09/2022 – (SAME DAY). 19.45  Nr GAPING GILL, INGLEBOROUGH, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A lone, novice walker (m, 16) rang NYP to say that he was lost near Gaping Gill. He had been out for six hours and was getting cold, although he said he was in appropriate clothing. With 10% battery on his phone, the call dropped out before the Force Control

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  • INCIDENT 82/2021 – OCTOBER 30th SAT. 22.57 RIBBLESDALE – DESCENT FROM INGLEBOROUGH, MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A group of nine three peaks walkers reported that they had been lost for about two hours on the descent from Ingleborough. NYP provided the CRO duty controller with Lat/Long and advised that members of  the group were all very cold, running out of water and not appropriately dressed for

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