Swaledale MRT passed on a request from North Yorkshire Police to investigate the sighting, by someone in Horton in Ribblesdale, of ‘large pieces of blue material’ at the side of the path on Pen y ghent. The observer, using binoculars, believed that he may be seeing a crashed hang-glider. A local team member joined him but could not identify what he was looking at. A team Land Rover took two…
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…
An aspirant Three Peaks walker (f, 23) was reported to be uninjured but ‘fatigued, unable to make it back down’, three quarters of a mile from the summit of Whernside on the North side. The reporting person, having been advised of the party’s options by the duty controller, agreed to set off to walk the casualty down, even if in short stages, to the Blea Moor aqueduct. Two local team…
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,…
