A walker ( stated as f, 14) believed she had ‘a fractured foot’, soon after leaving Pen y ghent summit on the descent towards Hull Pot. A few minutes later, as team members were being called out, a second call was received to a male walker of the same age, also on Pen y ghent, but with a ‘fractured/broken ankle’ and with the nearest location of Brackenbottom. A phone call…
Cumbria Police requested CRO’s assistance for two young hillwalkers, in separate parties at different locations but part of the same large group, who were going in and out of consciousness. Initial information was limited but placed both parties on the Deepdale side of Whernside. Team members located the casualties, assessed them, and brought them down off the hill for further assessment by our colleagues at NWAS and YAS. While this…
A pair of novice hill-walkers (m,32?; f,32?) set off to walk up Pen y ghent at 16.30. They called for help as they became lost while trying to descend to Horton in Ribblesdale. The team’s PhoneFind confirmed that they were on the West side of Plover Hill, above the broken line of crags. They were asked to walk up-hill and turn right at the wall towards the Pen y ghent…
NYP passed on what information they could glean from a broken call from a party of three walkers who said they were so cold that they feared the onset of hypothermia on the descent from the hill they were on. Data from the mobile phone company gave a grid reference which matched the descent path from Whernside. On listening again, NYP believed that they were walking the Three Peaks. Team…
