CRO members have, for several decades, provided rescue cover for competitors in the annual Three Peaks Race. They collaborate with a huge number of other volunteers from the Three Peaks Race Association and RAYNET – The Radio Amateurs Emergency Network – to ensure the safe return of the competitors and others met along the route.
Of the five requests for assistance at this year’s race, the first two were very straightforward pick-ups by Land Rover and have not been counted towards the team’s formal ‘tally’ of incidents for the year.
Times given in this extended post are those at which team members were deployed from Horton.
12.04 A runner (f) with an ankle injury was collected from the top of Horton Scar Lane (near Hull Pot) and delivered to the First Aid Post on the event field in CRO 1.
12.27 A runner (f, 25) fell near High Birkwith, sustaining a head injury, and was returned to the First Aid Post in CRO 2. A second runner (m, 36), was unable to continue because of an ankle injury and was also returned.
INCIDENT 34/2025 (same event) 13.36hrs WHERNSIDE
Race Control received a telephoned report that a runner had taken a fall at or near the bottom of the steepest part of the descent from Whernside towards Bruntscar and was now in a bivvi-bag. CRO 2 and CRO 3 were sent out but when the ‘hasty party’ ran up they met the CRO member and an UWFRA member who had come down from the summit with neither party having seen or heard of a casualty. Very soon afterwards, the ‘casualty’ was reported to have passed through Chapel le dale on the way to Ingleborough.
INCIDENT 35/2025 (same event) 14.45hrs INGLEBOROUGH
A relay-race runner (f, 31) fell on Ingleborough summit, injuring her right lower leg. The cuts were bandaged and the runner was assisted down to Little Ingleborough with the help of two race marshals. With the benefit of local knowledge, CRO 4 had reached Little Ingleborough and was able to carry the casualty down to an event ambulance on the Clapham – Ingleton Old Road.
INCIDENT 36/2025 (same event) 15.05hrs SULBER NICK, HORTON in RIBBLESDALE
NYP and RAYNET reported, separately, that a runner (m, 60+) had fallen while descending Sulber Nick. He made it as far as the junction of Sulber Nick with ‘Clapham Lane’ and was sheltered in a RAYNET vehicle. In addition to cuts and abrasions, he had sustained an open fracture to a finger which was bleeding profusely. Following attention from a CRO team member, the runner transferred to CRO 1 and was taken down to the First Aid post on the event field.
Volunteer hours (all incidents): 142
Congratulations to our three team members who completed the race and to the three who completed the Fellsman Hike – all in very commendable times