Baxenghyll Gorge, scene of the rescue
A walker was rescued from a Yorkshire Dales beauty spot after falling and injuring his face.
The 75-year-old man was on the Ingleton Waterfalls trail today when he slipped while coming down the footpath in Baxenghyll Gorge, suffering deep cuts to his face.
The Cave Rescue Organisation was called out at 5.25pm and went to the man’s aid.
The team doctor treated him at the scene and he was then helped to one of the CRO’s vehicles which took him to the farm at Beezleys where an ambulance was waiting.
Claudia
27 August 2013We are most grateful for the fast, friendly, and very professional help by the Mountain Rescue team. Our dad, who had tripped and fallen face first onto some rocks, was bleeding badly and weakened. The Mountain Rescue got him over a fence into a field accessible by their 4x4 and then up to the waiting ambulance. He was taken to hospital in Lancaster who treated him, and then sent him to Furness hospital to be kept overnight.
Thanks very much to everyone who helped.