While CRO members were standing by for an update on ‘the mystery of the missing runner’. RAYNET / Race Control advised that one of their marshals had encountered an injured walker and his injured son near the top of Horton Scar Lane (‘the Hull Pot track’). The father had been carrying his son (4) on his shoulders and tripped, sustaining a slight ankle injury and propelling the child to the…
A walker reported himself as having being lost and cold, for over an hours duration, in darkness, somewhere on Pen-y-Ghent. Although he was unsure of his location, the walker had been able to respond to a “phone find” text message which enabled CRO to see that his likely position was midway between Plover Hill and the summit of Pen-y-Ghent. Four CRO members quickly ascended the lane from Horton-in-Ribblesdale, towards Hull…
Having dispatched an air ambulance and a road ambulance, YAS called CRO to a walker (f, 33) who had fallen on the descent route from Pen y ghent towards the top of Horton Scar Lane, sustaining a facial injury and a deep scalp wound. When the first team members arrived at the casualty site, the patient was being treated by paramedics. She was then assisted to the helicopter and flown…
A runner in the Three Peaks Race (f, 50) sprained an ankle on the descent from Pen y ghent towards High Birkwith and was understood to be ‘one mile from Birkwith’. In the belief that she was on the Sell Gill to Greenfield bridleway, two team members drove the team’s Honda Pioneer along that route, but then Race Control was informed that she was just above High Birkwith Farm. Two…
