Just as the Team were clearing up and leaving the scene of the previous rescue, members were alerted to another injured walker on the Gordale Scar path, at the foot of the gorge. A walker (F, 23yrs) had slipped on rocks near the path and had injured her ankle. Unable to walk out, the Team treated her injury and carried her on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance at the…
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…
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…
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…
