A pair of novice hill-walkers (m,32?; f,32?) set off to walk up Pen y ghent at 16.30. They called for help as they became lost while trying to descend to Horton in Ribblesdale. The team’s PhoneFind confirmed that they were on the West side of Plover Hill, above the broken line of crags. They were asked to walk up-hill and turn right at the wall towards the Pen y ghent…
NYP passed on what information they could glean from a broken call from a party of three walkers who said they were so cold that they feared the onset of hypothermia on the descent from the hill they were on. Data from the mobile phone company gave a grid reference which matched the descent path from Whernside. On listening again, NYP believed that they were walking the Three Peaks. Team…
Two people with two dogs reported themselves stranded on the path down over the crags at the southern end (‘the sharp end’) of Pen y ghent in very strong wind. They asked the Police for Mountain Rescue, but as members were preparing to set out, the duty controller received a call to say that they had been assisted by other walkers and were returning to the summit before taking the…
Two Three Peaks walkers (f, 26; f, 22) told NYP that they were lost in the dark and low cloud, coming from Ingleborough down to Horton. The description suggested that, in the poor visibility, they had lost the path where it crosses an area of surface limestone between Sulber Nick proper and Beecroft Hall, then drifted to the South. While other members headed for Horton as a precaution, two local…
