Cave & Mountain Rescue

Saving Lives Above & Below Ground in the Yorkshire Dales What we do Awards and Recognition The History of CRO Safety Going Out Scheme Historical Incident Reports Resources for Children The Cave Rescue Organisation is based in Clapham in North Yorkshire and provides the cave…
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How you can help us

support your rescue team
The CRO is a charity and it’s volunteers respond to Cave and Mountain Rescue in the Three Peaks and Malham areas of the Yorkshire Dales The CRO is a charity and cannot run without the help of both it’s members and it’s supporters. There are…
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Guidelines for Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walkers and Organisers

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has agreed a new Code of Conduct for walkers undertaking the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge, with advice for walkers and event organisers. As the team who respond to the many calls we receive from participants on the Y3P, we…
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ALERT ONLY, NOVEMBER 13th WEDS 12.55hrs, CRUMMACKDALE, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 7 OF 2024

A ringing smartphone
The Team were alerted by North Yorkshire Police after they had been contacted by a passing walker to a possible incident.  The man had seen, from a distance, a hound (which was part of a pack being trailed on Studrigg Scar) apparently tumbling down a…
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INCIDENT 82/2024. NOVEMBER 9th SAT. 16.45 hrs. INGLEBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

The Team was alerted by North Yorkshire Police (NYP) to a 3 Peaks walker (M, 44) who was having breathing difficulties and felt like he was going to lose consciousness whilst ascending the final peak of Ingleborough . Contact was made by phone with the…
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INCIDENT 81/2024. NOVEMBER 7th THU. 14.07 hrs. MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A walker (f, 65) slipped whilst descending the footpath on the west side of Malham Cove suffering a suspected fracture to the right ankle. Team members assessed her, provided pain relief and splinted the lower leg before helping her on to a stretcher. She was…
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INCIDENT 80/2024. OCTOBER 28th MON. 17.44 hrs. GUNNERFLEET AREA, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

North Yorkshire Police (NYP) received an incomplete call from someone (or some people?) who had walked off Whernside, was uninjured but lost and benighted, so couldn’t find their car. From some of the words given, he may have been in the Gunnerfleet area. It transpired…
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