A pair of novice hill-walkers (m,32?;  f,32?) set off to walk up Pen y ghent at 16.30. They called for help as they became lost while trying to descend to Horton in Ribblesdale. The team’s PhoneFind confirmed that they were on the West side of Plover Hill, above the broken

The team were alerted by North Yorkshire Police to advise that the party of a walker (F, 27yrs) had become cragfast* on steep rocky ground, in blustery winds, on the path leading up to the summit of Pen-y-Ghent on the 3 Peaks Walk. Following contact with the party, a small

North Yorkshire Police called for assistance in rescuing a sheep which had fallen into Hull Pot.  A small team was dispatched.  While one team member abseiled approximately 18m down to the sheep and persuaded it into a flight bag, four other team members set up a hauling system.  The sheep

North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance following a report that a group of Three Peaks walkers could not locate one of their members who had become tired and had agreed to wait for the others while they finished the route.  While the duty controller was speaking to the police

While competing in the Three Peaks Race, a runner (m, 20) tripped on the approach to the summit of Pen y ghent, having run up via Horton Scar Lane. When he fell forwards, he put an arm out to arrest the fall and, in doing so, dislocated a shoulder. The

As they were returning to Horton in CRO 3 Land Rover, having delivered team members to stand by for the race going over Whernside, two members saw a cyclist almost taking a bend in the road and landing over a wall near Selside. As they were in a vehicle marked

A group of three Three Peaks walkers reported themselves exhausted, saying that one (m, 23) ‘can not move’. Although apparently placed near the junction of the Three Peaks permissive path with the Pennine Way, near Rough Hill (They were reversing the ‘usual’ route.), their position could not be confirmed by

In attempting to take a photograph from the South South Western rim of Hull Pot, a walker (m, 26) ventured just a little too far and fell over the edge, landing on the rock-strewn floor of the 90m-long, open pot, some18m below. CRO members arriving at the site found that

Three Three Peaks walkers (all m, 23) said they were lost in the dark, with one of their party struggling to walk, coming off Ingleborough. They said they thought they were about a mile from Horton. The team’s PhoneFind app put them in exactly the same location as in incident

Two people with two dogs reported themselves stranded on the path down over the crags at the southern end (‘the sharp end’) of Pen y ghent in very strong wind. They asked the Police for Mountain Rescue, but as members were preparing to set out, the duty controller received a