A walker (f, 78) was ill near the middle of the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove. Team members, assessed her before helping her on to a stretcher. She was wheeled/carried to a team vehicle and driven down to Malham car park. After a further assessment by the team doctor, she re-joined her (many) companions on their coach for the return home. Volunteer hours: 46
A visitor (m) took a fall on the return leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail and was seen to be struggling. One passing walker loaned him a walking pole and another tried to phone for help, but had almost reached Ingleton before she had a signal. Team members walked or ran that half of the Trail from each end without finding the man and his wife. The couple had reached…
A paraglider pilot (m, 57) was reported to have a bruised back and leg as well as being unable to walk off the hill, following a bad landing which included a fall from about 5 metres. Once having found him, team members assessed him, ‘packaged’ him in a vacuum mattress and brought him down to a team Land Rover on a stretcher. He was driven to the road-head and handed…
A caller, living over 200 miles away, where there had been heavy rain and flooding, was unable to phone his son (35) who had intended exploring Bull Pot of the Witches. He therefore contacted Cumbria Police, concerned about his son’s safety, some three hours earlier than their agreed ‘call-out time’. He was unaware that there had been little or no rain in the Casterton area that day and that only…
