North Yorkshire Police requested the team’s assistance with a power wheelchair user (m, 36) experiencing mechanical difficulties. While the location was initially unclear, further information placed the individual on the track up Pen-y-ghent from Hull Pot. Team members out training on CRO4, the team’s all terrain vehicle, located the individual
A visitor (f, 43) slipped and sustained an ankle injury, below Beezley Falls, on the return leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Team members splinted the ankle then carried and wheeled the patient, by stretcher, to a YAS road ambulance at Falls Park caravan site. The other members of her
A Three Peaks walker who had become separated from his walking partner on Pen-y-ghent reported the person missing to North Yorkshire Police, who notified CRO. As the Duty Controller was making preliminary inquiries so that a search could be conducted, the missing walker turned up near Horton in Ribblesdale. Volunteer
A Three Peaks walker called 999 after his girlfriend (19) fainted, repeatedly, at the beginning of the descent from Whernside towards Bruntscar. The CRO Duty Controller described what then happened: ‘The weather was worsening and it was starting to get dark. They had huddled down and she was in a
A walker (m, 64) slipped while walking from Ingleborough to Park Fell, sustaining a suspected broken ankle. A ‘hasty party’ (fell-runners with initial equipment) assessed and splinted the injury and put the patient into an insulated casualty bag. After further assessment by the team doctor, the patient was lifted onto
A walker (m, 34) stumbled on the return leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, sustaining a very painful ankle injury. After the team doctor had assessed the injury and given mild pain relief, team members splinted the ankle and stretchered the casualty to Beezleys. A team vehicle returned him to
Three Three Peaks walkers (m, m, f) reported themselves lost and benighted on the summit of Ingleborough. PhoneFind confirmed their position and they were asked to remain at the summit shelter. One team, in the Honda Pioneer, drove up onto Little Ingleborough and a second team went to Crina Bottom
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) asked for assistance when a walker (m, 54) experienced chest pains on Horton Scar Lane — a popular walking route to and from Pen y ghent. After assessment by YAS paramedics from the Air Ambulance the patient was carried the short distance to the helicopter, which
A climber (m, 34) fell about 6m while bouldering at Attermire Scar. He landed on his bouldering mat and thought he was uninjured apart from some pain in his lower back. A group of walkers came across him and helped keep him warm until a CRO controller arrived to establish
A walker (f, 40s) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove immediately above the steps, injuring a wrist and a leg. The first member on scene began assessing her and was soon joined by YAS paramedics from the Air Ambulance who diagnosed a wrist fracture, which

