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 Twisleton Dale House to transfer him to a waiting road ambulance for the trip to hospital.
Volunteer hours: 40
The climber’s helmet took some punishment, but without it the ‘rescue’ might have been a ‘recovery’.
