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  • INCIDENT 71/2025. AUGUST 24th  SUN. 16.33 hrs INGLEBOROUGH, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Undeterred by her experience on Whernside the previous day and underestimating the challenge, particularly of the descent, a walker reached the summit of Ingleborough but felt unable to begin the rocky descent. A passer-by called for help and a small team drove up Fell Lane, Ingleton, to Crina Bottom. They

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  • INCIDENT 70/2025. AUGUST 23rd  SAT. 14.45 hrs WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A distressed walker with medical problems was encountered by other people as they reached the summit of Whernside. Thanks to the support of several walkers, she reached the top of the steep descent path. CRO members then took over the support for the slow, safe walk down to a team

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  • ALERT ONLY. AUGUST 9th SAT. 15:49hrs GAPING GILL, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 9 OF 2025.

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    The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to a report of an overdue caver in the Gaping Gill system. Whilst the Duty Controller was making initial enquiries the reporting person got back in touch to confirm that the caver was now safely back on the surface. No action was

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  • INCIDENT 66/2025. AUGUST 8th, FRI. 11.34hrs KIRKBY FELL, nr MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to a report of a walker (m) who was found having a medical episode by a passing cyclist on the path across Kirkby Fell. Team members were able to drive CROs 2 and 3 along a track to within a few hundred

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  • INCIDENT 65/2025. AUGUST 6th, WED. 11.57hrs INGLEBOROUGH, AT THE BASE OF THE SWINE TAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (m, 51) slipped at the beginning of the ascent up the Swine Tail, sustaining a deformed ankle fracture. CRO 4 (Honda Pioneer) was driven up onto Little Ingleborough carrying three team members. They continued on foot to the casualty site above the hand-gate leading to Humphrey Bottom, meeting

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  • INCIDENT 64/2025. AUGUST 4th, MON. 15.33hrs RIVER GRETA from INGLETON to BURTON in LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE and continued on 5th, TUE. from INGLETON to GRETA BRIDGE (TUNSTALL, LANCASHIRE).

    Fast Water Rescue

    North Yorkshire Police (NYP) received a report of a body, floating down the River Greta at Ingleton Bottoms. NYP and North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (NYFRS) responded, then called CRO to join the search. A combined effort between CRO’s swift-water technicians and bank-safe searchers plus NYFRS swift-water technicians from

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  • ALERT ONLY. AUGUST 3rd SUN. 10.08hrs RIFT POT (MASONGILL), THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 8 OF 2025.

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    A caver reported that a sheep was stranded about 20m down a shaft into Rift Pot (Masongill). He offered to attempt to rescue it and report back. Meanwhile, team members were put on stand-by and one was tasked with checking the location. When the caver advised that the sheep had

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  • ALERT ONLY. AUGUST 2nd SAT. 18.41hrs OUTCROP BELOW NEW CLOSE KNOTTS, GORDALE SCAR, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 7 OF 2025

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    A ‘lamb’ was reported to be in distress on one of the limestone scars to the SW of Gordale Scar. The duty controller asked a colleague to assess the site, then alerted team members for attendance the following morning. In the meantime a neighbouring farmer sent up his sheepdog and the

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  • ALERT ONLY. JULY 18th FRI 21.41hrs THREE PEAKS WALK, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 6 OF 2025

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    A Three Peaks ‘charity walker’, last seen at 07.30 and heard from while ‘descending Whernside’ at 17.20, was reported missing by someone waiting with transport at Horton car park. A telephone call and a PhoneFind text were not answered, so two team members would set out to do a preliminary

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  • INCIDENT 61/2025. JULY 13th SUN. 15.33 hrs. SNOW FALLS, WATERFALLS TRAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    North Yorkshire Police called the team out to assist a walker (f,35) who had slipped and injured her ankle on the path below Snow Falls.  Team members attended and assessed the casualty, administered pain relief, and splinted the ankle.  They then stretchered the casualty to a team Land Rover which

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