The party of a walker (F, 40yrs) contacted North Yorkshire Police to say she was having difficulty descending from Whernside to Bruntscar on the 3 Peaks Path due to very painful knees which were getting more painful as she progressed. A small party of CRO members attended and, with assistance from her friends, managed to walk her down to a Team Vehicle at Broadrake. She was reunited with other friends…
A party of three men contacted North Yorkshire Police to say that one of their team had become stuck fast in a bog on the Gragareth ridge, above Kingsdale. CRO despatched a small team to investigate. Prior to arrival of the team, one of the party contacted CRO to inform them that they had managed to extricate their friend, who was thankfully uninjured. The group declined any further assistance and…
A visitor called the police, saying that his wife was feeling dizzy and sick on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail and needed mountain rescue. Unfortunately, the call dropped out and NYP could not re-establish contact, but the call’s source was calculated as possibly near Pecca Falls, Thornton in Lonsdale. The CRO duty controller phoned the IWT pay-box and was told that the caller had said his wife had sat down, had…
YAS requested CRO’s assistance in carrying a patient (m, 67) to an ambulance, following his collapse in a farm building. Members arrived to find him already in the ambulance, so they stood down. Volunteer hours: 15
