North Yorkshire Police were called by two walkers (m,27; f,27) who said they were lost in low cloud and rain after following a published walk on Ingleborough. As they were in a poor reception area, the usual telephone location systems were ineffective. However, the caller had mentioned walking past ‘a tanker’, which the team’s local knowledge suggested was the bowser (for watering stock) in the Clapham Bottoms area. With other…
Two walkers reported themselves ‘lost on Ingleborough after doing Three Peaks and believe both suffering from hypothermia’. They also said that Google maps showed them ‘0.3 miles from Low Sleights’. Their 999 call had gone to Lancashire Constabulary and was passed to NYP to call CRO. Unfortunately, the PhoneFind app did not work and the number that both forces had been given said ‘This number is incorrect . . .…
Three Three Peaks walkers (m,33; m,32; m,31) reported themselves lost on Ingleborough. Information from the 999 operating company put them on Park Fell (They had turned left at the hand-gate above Humphrey Bottom.), then a CRO PhoneFind message had them descending towards Whit-a-Green, near Selside. An off-duty controller walked up towards the mispers’ lights, escorted them to his car and returned them to Horton. They had lights and adequate clothing,…
Four Three Peaks walkers (all f) called NYP, saying that they were ‘lost’ on the descent from Ingleborugh towards Horton in Ribblesdale, despite being able to describe the signpost on their path (‘Horton 2 miles’) and provide a ten-figure grid reference. However, as they had only one torch and rapidly declining phone batteries, the Duty Controller decided to have them picked up where they were, rather than have them wandering…
