INCIDENT 34/2023 MAY 21ST 14.24 GORDALE, MALHAM,NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

The Team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist a walker (M, 36yrs) who had slipped whilst walking above Gordale Bridge, on the path from Malham Cove, and had badly injured his ankle. After assessment and administration of pain relief by YAS paramedics and the Team Doctor, the injured walker’s ankle was splinted by team members who stretchered him to the road-head. Meanwhile, just as the Team were leaving…

INCIDENT 19/2023 APR. 15th SAT. 17.55 SIMON FELL BREAST, INGLEBOROUGH, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE, MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

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…

INCIDENT 93/2022  DEC 10th SAT. 14.52 INGLEBOROUGH ESTATE NATURE TRAIL, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

Snowfall throughout the night of Friday 9th December was lying several centimetres deep by Saturday morning. That afternoon, a walker slipped and fell on compacted snow on the nature trail between Clapham village and Ingleborough Cave. Her fall caused her to fracture her left ankle, creating significant misalignment of her foot. CRO team members were able to give pain relief to the injured walker, before supporting the injured leg and…

INCIDENT 92/2022  DEC 8th THU. 13.32 SHERIFF HILL, off RAKES ROAD, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A walker slipped, fell over and injured her ankle whilst on the path between the top of Malham Cove and the Malham Rakes road. A CRO team member was able to unlock the field gate adjacent the road and drive a vehicle to the injured walkers location. She was taken down to Malham village for onwards travel, to hospital, in a private car. Volunteer hours: 7