We’re delighted to tell you that the website for signing up for next year’s CRO Ingleborough Challenge is now live! 2022 saw our biggest ever event, with the most entries in any single year – can you help us beat that number for 2023? Full details of the event (12 mile Clapham circuit or the marathon) are on the event website at https://crochallenge.wordpress.com/ We look forward to seeing you on…
A member of the public reported finding a visitor (m, 37) on the ground, with ‘chest pains, unable to move, poor speech and had been dizzy then fallen’ on the path near Thornton Force. A heart attack was suspected. NYP passed this message to CRO and to YAS. A local police officer collected a defibrillator and set off to assist. As team members were beginning to respond, YAS also initiated…
A visitor reported that her husband (67), a keen fell-runner but un-familiar with the area, had gone for a run up Ingleborough and not returned to Chapel le dale over an hour after the arranged time of 16.00 hrs.. When the duty controller tried to call the reporting person, the call went to Voicemail. Having left a request that she phone back, he then phoned NYP’s Force Control Room for…
Two walkers reported themselves ‘lost on Ingleborough after doing Three Peaks and believe both suffering from hypothermia’. They also said that Google maps showed them ‘0.3 miles from Low Sleights’. Their 999 call had gone to Lancashire Constabulary and was passed to NYP to call CRO. Unfortunately, the PhoneFind app did not work and the number that both forces had been given said ‘This number is incorrect . . .…
