INCIDENT 49/2023 JUN. 18th SUN. 10:15 MEALBANK QUARRY, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ANIMAL INCIDENT

On the previous day, a team member and a member of the public had spotted a lamb on a ledge near the top of Mealbank Quarry.  The lamb was left overnight to give it an opportunity to rescue itself, which is often the safest course for the animal.  When it did not do so, a small group attended and a team member was lowered to the lamb’s location.  The team…

INCIDENT 44/2023 (same day) 15:43 ABOVE THORNTON FORCE, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor to the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail (f, 54) twisted her ankle on the climb up the steps above Thornton Force, leaving her unable to walk.  After assessment by a team doctor, she was splinted and assisted into a stretcher with wheel attached.  Team members carefully eased the stretcher back down the steep steps.  They then wheeled the casualty back down the trail to a team Land Rover for transport…

INCIDENT 31/2023 MAY 17th WED. 13.19 INGLETON WATERFALLS TRAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor called the police, saying that his wife was feeling dizzy and sick on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail and needed mountain rescue. Unfortunately, the call dropped out and NYP could not re-establish contact, but the call’s source was calculated as possibly near Pecca Falls, Thornton in Lonsdale. The CRO duty controller phoned the IWT pay-box and was told that the caller had said his wife had sat down, had…

INCIDENT 29/2023 MAY 2nd TUE. 16.42 HUMPHREY BOTTOM, INGLEBOROUGH, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A three peaks walker (m, 59) collapsed on the steep path onto Ingleborough at Humphrey Bottom. Almost immediately, his wife began CPR and this was continued by paramedics from the North West Air Ambulance, when they arrived. The first CRO members on scene found that paramedics from a YAS road ambulance were also in attendance. When prolonged CPR proved ineffective, a team vehicle returned the YAS paramedics to the road-head…