Search – Esk Valley – 20th March 19:19 – 16/2021
Called to attend two walkers reporting themselves lost in woodland in the Esk Valley. In addition to being lost one of the party had suffered a reoccurrence of a pre existing medical condition and felt unable to continue walking.
Despite poor mobile coverage we managed to confirm their location through the Mountain Rescue England and Wales PhoneFind app and then through text messages, establish their condition and reassure them help was on the way. Our first team member on scene treated the patient to stabilise her condition and after a while was able to walk the pair slowly to a footpath and out to a waiting Yorkshire Ambulance Service ambulance.
Meanwhile two team vehicles and additional team members were on route should a protracted search be needed, advanced medical intervention be needed or if the patient required extraction by stretcher.
We had eleven team members deployed for around two hours.
This followed a successful ropes training session earlier the day for one of our team bubbles just up the valley at Thomason Foss / Beck Hole. A number of passing villagers commented that they expected to see us soon at one of our ‘hotpots’ for incidents once the lockdown ends.
We did not expect to be back in the area the same evening!
