The walker was descending Little Ingleborough towards Gaping Gill. Photo: Bob Smith/grough
A walker suffered a suspected dislocated shoulder when he slipped on icy ground while coming down from one of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks.
Rescuers said the 28-year-old was wearing trainers when the incident happened on Little Ingleborough, a subsidiary peak of Ingleborough.
The Clapham-based Cave Rescue Organisation was called out about 3.35pm on Sunday. The man was descending towards Gaping Gill when he fell. His companions managed to help him down a little further but progress was slow and the walker was in considerable pain.
A team spokesperson said: “He was given pain relief and stretchered – partly sledged, partly carried – down to a team Land Rover, below Trow Gill. Back in Clapham, he was transferred to an ambulance for the journey to hospital.”
The rescue was the team’s eighth incident of the year.
flanker
02 February 2017Does the 'in trainers' bit really need to be in the headline. It reads as a criticism of the walker's footwear, seeming to imply that if he had been in boots the accident would't have happened, when there is no grounds for this assumption. For a start I think thousands of fell runners would argue about the need for boots. Unless I need crampons I'll always wear my fell shoes, ahead of my boots, for walking due to the extra dexterity and grip they provide.
Bob Spencer
02 February 2017Can you please tell me where you get walking boots that are so high they can protect my shoulder please?
OldManOfTheHills
04 February 2017I quite agree with the first comment. Due to foot injury (plantar fascitis) I have needed to avoid boots and wear traner and my trainers have as good a grip as my boots though obviously i will need boots with my crampons on high winter mountains. To imply ignorance in a headline is foolish and mountain rescue teams rescue many well equiped folk who have planned badly or just had bad luck
Rachel
05 February 2017I also hike in trail running trainers and would be no more likely to slip in them than boots. In fact, I find myself more clumsy in boots.