INCIDENT 45/2024. (same day) 14.15 WHITE SCAR CAVE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE

A visitor (m, 75) was reported to have collapsed in the Battlefield Chamber of White Scar Cave — the furthermost part of the show cave — but was now ‘sat up with a cave guide’ and unable to walk. After a thorough assessment by the team’s doctor, the patient was carried by stretcher to the cave entrance and handed over to YAS personnel who were waiting with a road ambulance.…

INCIDENT 44/2024. JUNE 15th SAT 08.23 PEN Y GHENT, NORTH YORKSHIRE

A Three Peaks walker (m, 50) was reported to have collapsed, with CPR being administered by an off-duty paramedic, near the summit of Pen y Ghent. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance also attended. Team members went to the summit plateau and assisted with the transfer and evacuation of the man to the aircraft. Other members assisted with landing the aircraft and carrying him to a waiting road ambulance. Our thoughts are…

INCIDENT 36/2024 MAY 26th SUN. 22.00 INGLEBOROUGH/HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

Four members of an original party of twelve Three Peaks walkers had been struggling and were reported overdue on the descent from Ingleborough. With a search plan in place and a handful of team members en route to begin the search, a call was received confirming that the mispers had reached Horton safely. Another party of walkers had guided them off the hill with their lights. Volunteer hours: 5

INCIDENT 35/2024 (same day) 12.53 TWISLETON SCAR, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A climber (m, 61) fell a reported 3m at Twisleton Scars and suffered lower back pain. Team members and air ambulance paramedics assessed him then put him into a vacuum mattress (‘full body splint’) and on to a stretcher. Team members carried this down, over the steep, rocky ground, to a more even area where theĀ  patient could be lifted into the helicopter. This flew down to the road near…