INCIDENT 68/2021 – AUGUST 28th SAT. 14.58 – WATERFALLS WALK, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A young person (f 13) twisted her ankle whilst on a day out on the waterfalls walk with her family. The family tried to carry on walking, but called for help when the young person appeared to faint a couple of times. A CRO doctor and team members located the family near to the tea shed, just to the south of Thornton Force. The injured girl was cared for by…

INCIDENT 62/2021 – AUGUST 15th SUN. 08.45 – PEN Y GHENT, BETWEEN HULL POT AND HORTON SCAR LANE, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor (m, 31), staying at the campsite in Horton in Ribblesdale, went for a late evening run towards Pen y ghent, but took a bad fall somewhere near Hull Pot, possibly at about 23.00 hrs on Saturday. CRO controllers received an alert at 08.45 on Sunday saying that the misper had fallen, with unknown injuries at an unknown location on Pen y ghent. Just as a PhoneFind message failed…

INCIDENT 60/2021 – AUGUST 7th SAT. 11.45 – HIGH BIRKWITH AREA, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A Three Peaks walker (f, 37) slipped on the descent from Pen y ghent, sustaining an ankle injury. She was assisted to the gate above High Birkwith Farm and NYP was asked to call CRO. As it happened, two team members and a team Land Rover were at Ribblehead ‘awareness raising’, so they drove round to Birkwith. The casualty was assessed, splinted and given pain relief, then helped into the…

INCIDENT 59/2021 – AUGUST 6th FRI. 17.14 – WHITE SCAR CAVE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – CAVE INCIDENT

A visitor (f, 20) slipped at the far end of White Scar Cave, sustaining a lower leg injury.  Show cave staff assessed and treated the casualty’s injured leg and moved her to within 300m of the cave entrance. However, the profile of the passage was such that they were unable to complete the evacuation.  CRO members splinted the casualty’s leg, lifted her onto a wheeled Titan confined-space stretcher and brought…