The team were alerted by North Yorkshire Police (NYP) to a volunteer member of a working party (M, 65) who was on Pen y Ghent, one of the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, repairing the pathway. The man had been taken ill and was not capable of walking off the hill. Whilst other team members were alerted and deployed to a nearby location, we were actually able to drive our Honda Pioneer…
Four members of an original party of twelve Three Peaks walkers had been struggling and were reported overdue on the descent from Ingleborough. With a search plan in place and a handful of team members en route to begin the search, a call was received confirming that the mispers had reached Horton safely. Another party of walkers had guided them off the hill with their lights. Volunteer hours: 5
A climber (m, 61) fell a reported 3m at Twisleton Scars and suffered lower back pain. Team members and air ambulance paramedics assessed him then put him into a vacuum mattress (‘full body splint’) and on to a stretcher. Team members carried this down, over the steep, rocky ground, to a more even area where the patient could be lifted into the helicopter. This flew down to the road near…
A walker (m, 30) stumbled on a rock, on the bridleway just beyond Clapdale Farm. He heard a snap from one knee and fell to the ground, unable to go further. By coincidence, a few team members were supporting Search Dog Kez (and human assistant) in a search-dog demonstration event, just below Trowgill, so two of the team were driven down to the bridleway junction, to scramble up to the…
