A walker (f, 24) slipped and injured an ankle not far from Janet’s Foss on the path towards Malham village. When she had been assessed by the YAS paramedic, team members helped her to the road ambulance which took her to Settle Railway Station for the first train home. An undeserved end to a day involving at least two trains and a bus-ride. Volunteer hours: 17
INCIDENT 85/2025. (same day) 21.19 hrs PROVIDENCE POT, KETTLEWELL WITH STARBOTTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.
Our colleagues at Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) asked the team to assist with investigating a report of three cavers overdue in Dowbergill Passage, a demanding through trip between Providence Pot and Dow Cave in upper Wharfedale. An all-night search by cavers from the two teams and Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team (SMRT) eventually located the missing cavers around 09.15 on Friday morning well into the system, tired but uninjured. …
INCIDENT 84/2025. OCTOBER 2nd THURS. 17.23 hrs WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.
North Yorkshire Police called the team to assist a walker (m,17) who had slipped and injured his ankle and knee descending Whernside toward Bruntscar. Team members ascended to the casualty’s location just off the summit ridge, where they assessed and packaged the casualty. The team then sledged the casualty down to the roadhead on a Bell stretcher and handed him over to Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics for further care. A…
ALERT ONLY. OCTOBER 1st WED. 14.46 hrs INGLEBOROUGH NATURE TRAIL, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 16 OF 2025
The team were made aware of a person (m 80’s) who had collapsed on the nature trail. As the team were preparing a response they received a further call to say the person had been brought down to Clapham by the nature trail staff and no further assistance was required.