INCIDENT 17/2021 – May 15th Sat. 13.12 – Path across the head of The Allotment, Ingleborough, North Yorkshire. – Mountain Incident

A walker (f, 58) fell on the path from Simon Fell Breast to Sulber Nick, on Ingleborough, sustaining a deep gash just below her knee-cap. The call was originally sent to Swaledale MRT, but they transferred the call to CRO as soon as the location was clarified.  The team’ s Honda Pioneer was driven from near Clapham almost to the patient, while two Land Rovers, with more members, went via…

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Warning — ‘Wretched Rabbit’, Easegill

CRO is not in the habit of issuing site-specific ‘health and safety’ warnings, however, Wretched Rabbit is  very popular, so cavers who have not seen the warning on www.ukcaving.com or discovered a notice at Bull Pot Farm, please be advised that the entrance to Wretched Rabbit is reported to be partially blocked by a boulder, with ‘two huge blocks that look ready to drop’.

INCIDENT 45/2020 – Aug.3rd Mon. 23.01hrs – Ingleborough – Mountain Incident

Four Three Peaks walkers (all f) called NYP, saying that they were ‘lost’ on the descent from Ingleborugh towards Horton in Ribblesdale, despite being able to describe the signpost on their path (‘Horton 2 miles’) and provide a ten-figure grid reference. However, as they had only one torch and rapidly declining phone batteries, the Duty Controller decided to have them picked up where they were, rather than have them wandering…