A Three Peaks walker (m) was reported to have fallen, sustaining an open ankle fracture ‘3 to 5 miles on the path heading up Ingleborough from Horton’. As team members were alerted, PhoneFind messages were sent to the two mobile phone numbers gleaned by YAS and the CRO duty controller. Unfortunately, both were iPhones with the wrong privacy settings, so could not be located, but the verbal description suggested that…
A walking group, including a doctor, came across another walker (m, 79) who they reported was feeling dizzy and faint, unable to walk, on the steep ascent route of Pen y ghent. As CRO members set off up the hill, the doctor and ‘patient’ began to descend, but must have been moving well, as they had turned off towards Brackenbottom before the first team member reached the steep ground, running…
YAS requested assistance when their ambulance paramedics were unable to locate a visitor (f, 20), reported, by a friend, to be having a panic attack on the outward leg of the Waterfalls Trail. With the location still uncertain, team members divided up the route and began to look for the ‘casualty’. She did not identify herself to those who were looking for her and walked past some of them, on…
YAS requested assistance when their ambulance paramedics were unable to locate a visitor (f, 55), reported to have been taken ill on the return leg of the Waterfalls Trail. She was found, a little way downstream of the Snow Falls footbridge, assessed by a paramedic team member and assisted to a team vehicle. This took her to the road-head, where she was handed over to the YAS paramedic crew for…
