INCIDENT 86/2022  OCT. 18th TUE. 20.44 INGLEBOROUGH (NORTH WEST), INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

Two walkers reported themselves ‘lost on Ingleborough after doing Three Peaks and believe both suffering from hypothermia’. They also said that Google maps showed them ‘0.3 miles from Low Sleights’. Their 999 call had gone to Lancashire Constabulary and was passed to NYP to call CRO. Unfortunately, the PhoneFind app did not work and the number that both forces had been given said ‘This number is incorrect  .  .  .…

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ALERT only. OCT. 16th SUN. 10.17 – FOOTPATH, SOUTH OF RATHMELL, NORTH YORKSHIRE – ALERT No 6 of 2022

YAS passed on a call for a walker (m, 58) who was reported to have ‘fallen off a 1m wall’, sustaining a suspected ankle fracture on the footpath between Cappleside and Hard Head Farm, Rathmell. Team members were alerted but as the first arrived at Base to collect a vehicle, the duty controller learned that the casualty was in the sheep trailer behind a farmer’s quad bike, on the way…

INCIDENT 85/2022  OCT. 14th FRI. 12.58 PATH BELOW HOOBER EDGE, PIKEDAW, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A small group of horses galloped past but very close to four walkers on the path from Malham to Pikedaw, beyond Butterlands Barn. One horse came so close that one of the walkers (f, 63) was ‘bowled over’ and sustained a wrist injury on landing. Her group began to walk her back down the hill, but the pain was such that this could not continue. Team members attended, assessed the…

INCIDENT 84/2022  (same day) 17.32 WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

North Yorkshire Police received a call from a walker who, while walking on Whernside, had texted a family group who she knew were also on the hill, asking whether all was well. This was because a member of the family was known to have knee problems. The reporting person’s text was sent at 13.03, but because one or both of the phones was out of signal,  she did not see…