INCIDENT 31/2024. MAY 17th FRI. 18.09 PEN-Y-GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

North Yorkshire Police requested the team’s assistance with a power wheelchair user (m, 36) experiencing mechanical difficulties.  While the location was initially unclear, further information placed the individual on the track up Pen-y-ghent from Hull Pot.  Team members out training on CRO4, the team’s all terrain vehicle, located the individual and transported him with his wheelchair down to Horton in Ribblesdale.  Other team members then arranged the individual’s onward transportation…

INCIDENT 38/2022 JUN 10th  FRI. 18.34 FOOTBRIDGE OVER MALHAM BECK, BELOW MALHAM COVE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

As team members were preparing for a social gathering where many would receive the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal and/or a certificate commemorating their length of service, a call was received to an accident at Malham.  A visitor (m, 88) was being taken to the foot of the Cove in a wheelchair, but stood for a photograph on the stone clapper bridge across Malham Beck then fell, hit his head and…