North Yorkshire Police called for assistance in rescuing a sheep which had fallen into Hull Pot. A small team was dispatched. While one team member abseiled approximately 18m down to the sheep and persuaded it into a flight bag, four other team members set up a hauling system. The sheep was brought to the surface and turned over to the farmer who owned it, looking somewhat dishevelled from its experience…
A walker (m, 65) fell (possibly 3 – 4m?) from the climb up the lower waterfall at Gordale Scar. On arrival, team members began assessing the casualty’s injuries before being joined by a YAS paramedic. Although only a head injury was obvious, as a precaution, the casualty was placed, very carefully, into a vacuum mattress (immobilising the whole body) and this into an insulated casualty bag. The whole was then…
In attempting to take a photograph from the South South Western rim of Hull Pot, a walker (m, 26) ventured just a little too far and fell over the edge, landing on the rock-strewn floor of the 90m-long, open pot, some18m below. CRO members arriving at the site found that a NWAA helicopter had just landed and, also, a local farmer had transported YAS personnel there. Team members rigged and…
Having descended through Lower Long Churn into Alum Pot, a caver (m, 38) fell a distance of up to 5 or 6m from the bottom pitch, sustaining suspected injuries to ankle, femur, lower back and chest. CRO members descended to the casualty, assessed his injuries, used a group shelter and heated waistcoat to warm him, administered pain relief and ‘packaged’ him in a vacuum mattress (whole-body splint) then placed him…
