A Three Peaks walker (f, 20) suffered crippling abdominal pain, causing her to faint momentarily on the summit of Whernside – her final peak of the three. The team responded, also requesting an air ambulance, but the YAS clinical hub decided that the casualty had rallied sufficiently to be classed as ‘walking wounded’. However, she was very cold so was helped into an insulated casualty bag and onto a stretcher.…
As the members involved in incident no 26 were descending, they were asked to help two more walkers to assist a companion who had also aggravated existing knee and ankle injuries. They were assisted down to the Honda Pioneer, which returned them to the road head. In shuttling injured walkers along Philpin Lane, Chapel le dale, team members came across an incapacitated Three Peaks walker who was said to have…
After the last runner had passed through the summit of Whernside, the CRO members who had been patrolling there began their descent towards Bruntscar, but soon came across an ascending party of four Three Peaks walkers, one of whom (m, 20) was struggling to walk. Earlier, he had sustained a leg injury on Ingleborough then aggravated it by continuing. The group having been persuaded to retire from their walk, the…
A walker, undertaking a solo round of the 3 -peaks walk, strayed from his intended path from the summit of Ingleborough and became benighted. CRO team leaders were able to contact the walker on his mobile phone; he gave a good description of his probable location, but added that he had left his torch in his car and could no longer see where he was going. The benighted walker was…
