A paraglider pilot (m, 57) was reported to have a bruised back and leg as well as being unable to walk off the hill, following a bad landing which included a fall from about 5 metres. Once having found him, team members assessed him, ‘packaged’ him in a vacuum mattress and brought him down to a team Land Rover on a stretcher. He was driven to the road-head and handed…
A caller, living over 200 miles away, where there had been heavy rain and flooding, was unable to phone his son (35) who had intended exploring Bull Pot of the Witches. He therefore contacted Cumbria Police, concerned about his son’s safety, some three hours earlier than their agreed ‘call-out time’. He was unaware that there had been little or no rain in the Casterton area that day and that only…
A visitor (m, 77) tripped and fell, sustaining a serious ankle injury. In the broken telephone call he made to YAS, he described being ‘in a field’ and said he could ‘see Gordale Farm to his left’, but gave no further information. Team members were alerted at the same time as a road ambulance was allocated to the incident. The first members arriving at Gordale Bridge learned that the fall…
An expeditioner (f,15) sustained an ankle injury while walking on a footpath over Dean Moor to the North East of Langscar Gate. Fortunately, two of the supervisory staff were members of other mountain rescue teams, so they splinted the injury, gave pain relief and sheltered the casualty in an expedition tent while calling CRO through North Yorkshire Police. Team members carried and ‘sledged’ the casualty to Langscar Gate, where she…
