Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association members stretcher the injured caver from Goyden Pot. Photo: Sara Spillet

A caver was rescued from a North Yorkshire pothole after falling and injuring herself.

Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association was called out about 9.45pm on Wednesday to Goyden Pot in Nidderdale, north of Lofthouse.

Initial reports suggested the caver might have suffered pelvic injuries and a broken thigh bone, and 28 members of the Grassington-based team went to the site.

Alan Scowcroft of UWFRA said: “Fortunately, she had fallen in the main streamway, about 2m, so the team was able to carry her to the entrance using a Titan lightweight stretcher normally only used on the surface.”

A team doctor treated the woman at the scene and she was stretchered to the surface where an ambulance was waiting.

Mr Scowcroft said: “Fortunately, it transpires that she has in fact only suffered severe bruising with nothing broken.”

The rescue took three hours.