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  • INCIDENT 68/2024. September 13TH 13.46 HRS. JANET’S FOSS, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    Walking Rescues

    Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) alerted the team to assist with a walker (F, 65) who had slipped on the path descending to Janet’s Foss and suffered a head injury.  After an assessment by a team member she was able to walk the short distance back to the road and taken

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  • INCIDENT 67/2024. SEPTEMBER 8th SUN. 13.47 hrs. SCALEBER FORCE, SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A visitor (f, 27) slipped and fell a short distance at the foot of the lowest cascade of Scaleber Force, experiencing serious back pain. After assessing the site, the YAS paramedics requested CRO’s assistance with the rescue. Having given pain relief and put her into an insulated casualty bag, team

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  • INCIDENT 66/2024. SEPTEMBER 7TH 12:10 HRS. Penyghent, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    Mountain Rescue

    The team was alerted by North Yorkshire Police (NYP) to assist a walker (F, 34) with a suspected ankle fracture. After speaking to the reporting party and use of phonefind it was established that the incident was on Penyghent. The team responded via Dale Head and a hasty team was

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  • INCIDENT 65/2024. AUG 31ST SAT 23.10 HRS. WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    With team members still assembled at the Depot from Incident 64, North Yorkshire Police notified the team of a second group of seven walkers (f) missing on Whernside.  Inquiries suggested that a group of three had descended into Kingsdale, while the other group of four was on the summit ridge. 

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  • INCIDENT 64/2024. AUG 31ST SAT 22.12 HRS. NEAR INGLEBOROUGH CAVE, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    North Yorkshire Police requested the team’s assistance to find two walkers (m, 45, f, 13) lost in the vicinity of Ingleborough Cave.  Team members used team vehicles to conduct a preliminary search of tracks in the area, while other team members gathered at the Depot to prepare for a more

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  • ALERT only. AUGUST 21st WED. 18.28 WHERNSIDE SUMMIT RIDGE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 4 OF 2024

    General News

    A walker (m, 19) called the ambulance service saying that he and a companion (f) were lost and cold. The call went to NWAS, via a mast in Lancashire, and information was passed to YAS, who called CRO because their system showed the mispers to be on the summit ridge of

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

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    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 59/2024. AUGUST 18th SUN 09.56 hrs. PEN Y GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (f, 49) was reported to have fallen on the path known as ‘the miners’ track’, to the North West of Pen y ghent summit, sustaining a head injury. As team members and a YAS road ambulance were en route, the walker’s husband told YAS that she had suffered

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  • INCIDENT 58/2024. AUGUST 15th THURS 14.27 hrs. KINGSDALE MASTER CAVE, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Cave Rescue

    A caver reported that four companions (m, 59; f, 38; m, 26; m, 26) — two experienced and two less so — were unable to reach their ladder from the streamway up to the Roof Tunnel in Kingsdale Master Cave because of fast-flowing and rising water. As the first rescue

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  • INCIDENT 57/2024. AUGUST 8th THURS 13.09 HRS. BELOW BEEZLEY FALLS, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue

    North Yorkshire Police called the team to assist a canyoner (f, 14) who had fallen about 9 metres into the River Doe.  Her group leaders had brought her out onto the bank, where she was complaining of back pain.  Team members attended together with paramedics from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. 

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