Male injured How Stean Gorge

The team was called out by North Yorkshire Police to How Stean Gorge following a report of a casualty with a broken leg inside the gorge.

What made this one extra special,our vehicles had literally just returned to the hut from the Timble Woods callout when the second call came in! No rest for our brilliant volunteers!

Three team vehicles were mobilised, along with our water technicians and also water technicians from our friends at Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team.  Once on scene, the casualty was assessed and loaded onto the rescue sled for evacuation. Thankfully the operation moved faster than expected, and we were able to stand down the SMRT water techs before they even reached the scene.

The casualty was successfully extracted from the gorge and handed over to a waiting ambulance