While competing in the Three Peaks Race, a runner (m, 20) tripped on the approach to the summit of Pen y ghent, having run up via Horton Scar Lane. When he fell forwards, he put an arm out to arrest the fall and, in doing so, dislocated a shoulder. The two team members stationed on the summit were alerted and descended the short distance to the casualty. They assisted him,…
A Three Peaks walker (m, 41) sustained a particularly painful lower leg injury when he slipped or tripped at the beginning of the path across Simon Fell Breast — the path from Ingleborough to Sulber Nick and thence to Horton in Ribblesdale. He was assessed by the team doctor, splinted and put into an insulated casualty bag. All was then lifted onto a wheeled Titan stretcher and taken gently to…
Three Three Peaks walkers (all m, 23) said they were lost in the dark, with one of their party struggling to walk, coming off Ingleborough. They said they thought they were about a mile from Horton. The team’s PhoneFind app put them in exactly the same location as in incident no 8, so while other members headed for Horton as a precaution, two local members walked up from Beecroft, found…
Two walkers reported themselves ‘lost on Ingleborough after doing Three Peaks and believe both suffering from hypothermia’. They also said that Google maps showed them ‘0.3 miles from Low Sleights’. Their 999 call had gone to Lancashire Constabulary and was passed to NYP to call CRO. Unfortunately, the PhoneFind app did not work and the number that both forces had been given said ‘This number is incorrect . . .…
