INCIDENT 59/2023 JUL. 14th FRI. 20.40 WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

NYP passed on what information they could glean from a broken call from a party of three walkers who said they were so cold that they feared the onset of hypothermia on the descent from the hill they were on. Data from the mobile phone company gave a grid reference which matched the descent path from Whernside. On listening again, NYP believed that they were walking the Three Peaks. Team…

INCIDENT 58/2023 JUL. 9th SUN. 14.03 THORNTON FORCE, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor (m, 37) slipped, while ‘taking a selfie’ on the ledge which runs behind the waterfall at Thornton Force on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. He fell and slithered the 3+ metres down onto rocks, below and was held there, temporarily by the force of the waterfall. Aided by a friend, he was able to stand and escape the water. He was standing and ‘seemed happy’ when the first CRO…

INCIDENT 57/2023 JUL. 8th SAT. 14.49 Nr PECCA FALLS, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor (m, 29) sustained an ankle injury, so that he was unable to put weight on it, near Pecca Falls on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. After splinting his ankle, team members assisted the casualty to a Land Rover, parked nearby. This returned him to the Trail car park for his girlfriend to drive him to hospital, on the way home. Volunteer hours:  18    

INCIDENT 56/2023 JUL. 7th FRI. 18.35 DALES WAY ‘NORTH OF GEARSTONES’, INGLETON NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

YAS called CRO when a European visitor (f, 36) was reported to be experiencing chest pains, ‘a mile North of Gearstones on the Dales Way’. Telephone communication difficulties led to a lack of further information, so the team began organising to search from Winshaw, High Gayle and the Dentdale road at Stoops Moss. The Stoops Moss group had gone little more than 20 metres from the road when they met…