A walker (f, 74) tripped on the beck-side path to the foot of Malham Cove, falling forwards. Putting her hands up to arrest the fall and protect her face resulted in an injury to one shoulder / upper arm. The main group of team members arrived on scene at the same time as YAS paramedics, who immobilised the injury and administered pain relief. Team members lifted the patient onto a…
A walker (f, 69) slipped on wet snow on the path between Langscar Gate and the top of Watlowes (‘Dry Valley’), Malham, injuring an ankle, so that she could not stand. Team members splinted the ankle then took her by wheeled stretcher to a team Land Rover, waiting at the road-head. She was driven down to Malham car park and transferred to a friend’s car for the journey to hospital…
A German Pointer called Frankie fell into the river, between the ‘Pecca Twin Falls’ on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail and was stranded on an inaccessible ledge (just below the one on which Meatball was stranded on Boxing Day). His owners called for help and members of CRO’s swift-water rescue team scrambled down, swam to retrieve the dog and brought him safely up to the path. Footnote:- As we suggested back…
A walker (f, 41) fell on limestone pavement, trapping her foot so that she was unable to move and she soon became very cold. It was not possible to use PhoneFind or speak to her (Her phone may have worked via ’emergency roaming’.), but as CRO members arrived in the immediate area, Police officers had already found her. She was provided with a heated waistcoat and a Blizzard emergency jacket, then…
