Wednesday being a training evening, a gathering of members at Langcliffe Scar had just dealt with two ‘casualties’ when the controllers’ alert fired off. A group of visitors to the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail had come across another visitor (m, 84) struggling (‘Stranded’, they said.) on the return leg of the Trail. One member of the group returned to the Trail car park to call for help while others stayed with…
Members were called to a D of E expeditioner (f, 17) who had collapsed while climbing Ingleborough. A phone call to the group’s supervisor established that the person involved had collapsed a second time. PhoneFind showed the exact location, at about the 550m contour, and the team approached via Crina Bottom. The casualty was brought down to a team Land Rover at Crina Bottom, using a wheeled stretcher, then driven…
YAS called CRO to a visitor (f, 25) with an ankle injury, passing on the co-ordinates provided by the caller. The YAS road ambulance and the CRO duty controller went to the site indicated, near Twisleton Dale House, but could find no-one and the caller’s phone was out of contact. As they searched, YAS control received a call from a different mobile phone, saying that the injured person was near…
A Three Peaks walker (m, 60) was reported to have collapsed (believed to be in cardiac arrest), just on to the summit of Ingleborough, having climbed up from Chapel le dale. Members of his own group administered CPR until paramedics arrived by North West Air Ambulance. CRO members were ascending from Fell Lane, Ingleton as the air ambulance flew in, but some were withdrawn when, after the best efforts of…
