INCIDENT 27/2022 SAME DAY 13.30 WHERNSIDE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

As the members involved in incident no 26 were descending, they were asked to help two more walkers to assist a companion who had also aggravated existing knee and ankle injuries. They were assisted down to the Honda Pioneer, which returned them to the road head. In shuttling injured walkers along Philpin Lane, Chapel le dale, team members came across an incapacitated Three Peaks walker who was said to have…

INCIDENT 26/2022 SAME DAY 12.40 WHERNSIDE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

After the last runner had passed through the summit of Whernside, the CRO members who had been patrolling there began their descent towards Bruntscar, but soon came across an ascending party of four Three Peaks walkers, one of whom (m, 20) was struggling to walk. Earlier, he had sustained a leg injury on Ingleborough then aggravated it by continuing. The group having been persuaded to retire from their walk, the…

INCIDENT 25/2022 APRIL 30th SAT. 12.00 HORTON SCAR LANE, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

While CRO members were standing by for an update on ‘the mystery of the missing runner’. RAYNET / Race Control advised that one of their marshals had encountered an injured walker and his injured son near the top of Horton Scar Lane (‘the Hull Pot track’). The father had been carrying his son (4) on his shoulders and tripped, sustaining a slight ankle injury and propelling the child to the…

INCIDENT 24/2022 – APRIL 18th Mon 16.55 Quarry Wood, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Ingleton,  North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

A visitor (f, ) slipped, sustaining an ankle injury, in Quarry Wood, towards the end of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Team members walked in from Storrs Common and, having given mild pain-relief and splinted the lower leg, lifted the casualty in an insulated casualty bag onto a wheeled stretcher. She was wheeled to a team Land Rover, which carried her to the family car after she had opted to go…