A walker (f, 58) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, sustaining ankle and lower leg injuries. Her husband helped her to the grassy bank behind the limestone pavement, then called the Police. NYP called CRO, whose team members assessed the injuries, administered mild pain relief and splinted the injured leg before helping the patient into a casualty bag on a Titan stretcher. Stretcher and patient…
ankle injury
INCIDENT 71/2022 AUG. 30th TUE. 12.31 INGLEBOROUGH, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
A walker (m, 62) phoned North Yorkshire Police and asked for Mountain Rescue after he had slipped, just a short distance from the summit of Ingleborough, having ascended from Ingleton. He believed that he had broken an ankle and said he was unable to walk unaided. CRO 4, the Honda Pioneer ATV, took two members and initial equipment as far up the path as was safe then returned to the…
INCIDENT 69/2022 AUG. 27th SAT. 16.41 HORTON MOOR, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
A walker (m, 32) was reported to have sustained an ankle injury at a location believed to be almost at the top of Horton Scar Lane (a.k.a. ‘The Vicarage Track’ or ‘The Hull Pot Track’) from Horton in Ribblesdale. It seemed that this incident would be a simple pickup by a small team in a Land Rover but, as a precaution, the vehicle from Clapham was backed up by another,…
INCIDENT 65/2022 AUG. 14th SUN. 15.28 HEAD OF WATLOWES (‘THE DRY VALLEY’), MALHAM MOOR, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
A walker (f, 54) slipped and sustained a suspected broken ankle on the path from Water Sinks, just before it joins the path down into ‘the Dry Valley’, leading to Malham Cove. A small team of CRO members walked down from Langscar Gate, administered pain relief, splinted the leg, lifted the walker onto a lightweight Titan stretcher and carried her to a team Land Rover. This took her down to…