A walker (f,67) slipped on mud and sustained an injury to her right ankle. Team members based in the Ribblesdale area responded with CRO2 and our all terrain vehicle, CRO4. Prior to the team’s arrival, a member of a neighbouring team, and his Doctor wife, happened across the incident and
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
A walker reported himself as having being lost and cold, for over an hours duration, in darkness, somewhere on Pen-y-Ghent. Although he was unsure of his location, the walker had been able to respond to a “phone find” text message which enabled CRO to see that his likely position was
A visitor (m, 20) to the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail was reported to be ‘struggling with fatigue and now feeling unwell’, having been walking for two and a half hours, from Ingleton. Once the duty controller had confirmed with the party that they were on the path above Thornton Force, team
A walker who found a fully-laden rucksac leaning against a wall corner below Attermire Scar, having shouted around over a period of about 20 minutes and hearing no response, asked for advice. Having then identified the owner as Dutch, he was advised to close up the sac and leave it.
A walker (m, 74) was reported overdue from a walk beginning at about 09.00 on Monday. NYP found his car in Kettlewell and after carrying out its own enquiries continuedd searching and called out UWFRA at 02.57 on Tuesday. UWFRA later called in RAF Leeming MRT, CRO and Swaledale teams,
YAS called CRO when a walker (f, 45) was reported to have been ‘trampled by cows’ in a field, just off Thwaite Lane, between Clapham and Austwick. When the first team members arrived, they found two road ambulances and an air ambulance already on scene with the paramedics assessing the
A visitor (m, 46) was reported to have fallen, a third of the way up the steps to the top of Malham Cove. He was unable to stand or put any weight on one leg because of a knee injury. After attention from YAS paramedics, he was helped on to
A walker (f, 37) was reported to have fallen, with a head injury at ‘top of rocks 1/4 mile past Gordale Farm Gordale Scar, but YAS had been unable to obtain a better fix as the call kept dropping out. CRO could not return the call or acquire a location
A Three Peaks walker (m, 28) was reported overdue/missing, seven hours after last being seen on Pen y ghent. He had been walking too slowly for his companion who had continued on ahead without him, trying to catch up with the fastest two out of their original group of four.

