A FELL runner with a broken ankle and a Yorkshire Three Peaks walker were both helped over the weekend by members of the Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO).

At just before 11am on Saturday (April 15) a fell runner slipped on a muddy patch while coming down from Park Fell from Colt Park, near Ribblehead.

A CRO spokesperson said: "Her companions called CRO via North Yorkshire Police, then kept the casualty warm until team members arrived. After assessment by a team doctor, the casualty’s leg was splinted and she was part-carried and part-sledged down the hill on a Bell stretcher.

"Meanwhile, her companions were taken to their own car which they drove to Colt Park. Here, she was helped into the back seat for the journey to hospital."

The team was called out again at just before 6pm when a 'Three Peaks' walker sustained a lower leg injury as he descended Simon Fell Breast, on the path from Ingleborough to Sulber Nick.

The spokesperson said: "He was assessed by the team doctor, splinted and put into an insulated casualty bag before being lifted onto a wheeled Titan stretcher and taken gently towards Nick Pot and the waiting CRO 3 - the team's stretcher-carrying Land Rover.

"He was taken down to the CRO depot in Clapham, and re-united with his walking companions who had driven round from their finish in Horton."