North Yorkshire Police received a call from a walker who, while walking on Whernside, had texted a family group who she knew were also on the hill, asking whether all was well. This was because a member of the family was known to have knee problems. The reporting person’s text was sent at 13.03, but because one or both of the phones was out of signal, she did not see…
A walker (f, 58) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, sustaining ankle and lower leg injuries. Her husband helped her to the grassy bank behind the limestone pavement, then called the Police. NYP called CRO, whose team members assessed the injuries, administered mild pain relief and splinted the injured leg before helping the patient into a casualty bag on a Titan stretcher. Stretcher and patient…
A Three Peaks walker (m, 55) suffered a knee injury – possibly caused by the repeated pounding of his feet on the hardened path surfaces (?) – a little way down the steep descent from the top of Whernside, so that he was unable to continue walking. He called North Yorkshire Police and the request for help was passed on to the CRO duty controller. Having splinted the injured leg,…
The footpath across the top of Malham Cove crosses a wonderful area of limestone pavement, comprising large blocks of bedrock called clints, separated by deep cracks known as grikes. A young person, on a group visit to Malham, was walking across the limestone pavement at the top of the Cove when her foot and lower leg slipped into a grike. She reported that she heard a cracking noise and that…
