INCIDENT 58/2024. AUGUST 15th THURS 14.27 hrs. KINGSDALE MASTER CAVE, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A caver reported that four companions (m, 59; f, 38; m, 26; m, 26) — two experienced and two less so — were unable to reach their ladder from the streamway up to the Roof Tunnel in Kingsdale Master Cave because of fast-flowing and rising water. As the first rescue team members began to move into the Roof Tunnel, they encountered the mispers making their way safely to the surface.…

INCIDENT 32/2024 MAY 18th SAT. 21.56 POOL SINK TO WRETCHED RABBIT, EASE GILL SYSTEM, CASTERTON, CUMBRIA.

Cumbria Police alerted the team when a party of cavers (2m, 4f) doing a through trip from Pool Sink to Wretched Rabbit in Ease Gill were reported by their callout person to be significantly overdue.  Team members proceeded to Bull Pot Farm to search the route the cavers had taken, while members of the CRO Cavers List and underground members of Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) were placed on…

INCIDENT 7/2024 (same day). 22.44 LANCASTER HOLE to WRETCHED RABBIT, CASTERTON, CUMBRIA – CAVE INCIDENT

Four cavers were reported overdue on a through trip from Lancaster Hole to Wretched Rabbit, beneath Casterton Fell, having set off at noon. Four members of the Red Rose C&PC, resident at Bull Pot Farm, went to Wretched Rabbit and began searching from that end of the visiting cavers’ anticipated route. Having found no-one, so far, two of the RRCP&PC returned to Bull Pot Farm to report. The CRO duty…

INCIDENT 4/2024 FEB. 10TH SAT. 2350 HRS. COUNTY POT, LECK FELL, KIRKBY LONSDALE, CUMBRIA, CAVING INCIDENT

The team were called out at 23.50 hrs on Saturday evening by Cumbria Police for an overdue party of nine cavers (7f and 2m – 19 to 22 years) in County Pot, a popular entrance into the Ease Gill system. Two underground teams were deployed to carry out a hasty search of the route that had been given. They were supported by surface personnel who set up a communication relay.…