The Team were called by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist with a visitor (M, 25yrs) who had tripped and dislocated his knee on the top of Malham Cove. As the Team were mobilising to the site, our partners from Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) arrived on scene and were able to land close to the site. They quickly treated the injury and then flew the casualty down to Malham…
leg injury
INCIDENT 70/2023 AUG 19th SAT. 12.13 HIGH HILL LANE, SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT
A couple were walking on the field path from Lambert Lane to Upper Settle, with their dogs, when a group of young cattle began running towards them. The walkers scrambled into a different field to avoid the beasts, but the man (53) fell and sustained a knee injury, so that he could not walk. YAS paramedics attended, giving pain relief and splinting the injured leg but were unable to move…
INCIDENT 69/2023 AUG 16th WEDS 12.35 GAPING GILL, INGLEBOROUGH, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
Back to Gaping Gill for the Team again today! We received a call from members of the Craven Pothole Club at Gaping Gill that a walker (M, 24) had returned to the site (having left earlier to go for a walk up Ingleborough) complaining of pain in his leg which had become so painful he could not weight bear on it. A small team was despatched in the Team’s Honda…
INCIDENT 61/2023 JUL. 21st FRI. 10:39 SWAN BUTTRESS, GIGGLESWICK SCAR SOUTH, GIGGLESWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
A climber (m, 30) slipped and fell near the top of a climb, sustaining a serious injury to his right lower leg. His belayer lowered him back to the ground and called for assistance. Team members attended, assessed the casualty, splinted his leg, and then strapped him onto a Bell stretcher (a heavy-duty stretcher with skids underneath). The casualty was then lowered down the high-angle slope to the road below…