A mountain biker had to be rescued when he broke his leg riding near Harrogate this week.
The cyclist came off his bike at Norwood Edge, which is a popular location for on and off-road cyclists.
Volunteers from Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association were summoned to help the man on Monday.
Pic: Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association
In a Facebook post, the association said:
“We received a call from Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist with a 43-year-old male mountain biker who had fallen off his bike sustaining a broken leg.
“First team members on the scene carried out a primary survey while waiting for the team vehicles and the ambulance crew.
“The team assisted the crew to package casualty and then carry off to waiting ambulance. We wish him a quick and full recovery.”
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Boy, 11, rescued from Brimham Rocks
Rescuers came to the aid of an 11-year-old boy who got stuck at Brimham Rocks yesterday.
Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association was called to the National Trust-owned site near Pateley Bridge by North Yorkshire Police.
The boy had reached the top of Castle Rocks but then felt unable to get down safely.
Nine members of the volunteer-run association attended the incident.
Its website said:
“A small team was deployed, rigging a rope and lowering him safely and uninjured to ground level, whereupon he was reunited with his grandmother.”
The association has attended several similar incidents at Brimham Rocks this year.
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Man rescued at Thruscross after fall
Fell rescuers were called to Thruscross reservoir in the Harrogate district yesterday to help a man who had fallen.
Volunteers from Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association were summoned at 1.30pm by Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
They were asked to assist a 35-year-old male who had ruptured the patellar tendon in his knee.
The man is helped into the ambulance.
It is believed the unnamed man, who was walking his dog at the time, slipped going down some steps at the far end of the reservoir.
The association said in a statement:
“After treatment by the ambulance crew the casualty was stretchered a kilometre back to the road ambulance at Whitmoor farm.”
Fifteen volunteers attended, because of the need to lift the man on a stretcher over stiles and gates.
Boy, 11, rescued after falling at Brimham Rocks
An 11-year-old boy had to be rescued after falling at Brimham Rocks.
The young boy was coming down from one of the high rocks near the car park when he fell onto a grassy area on his arms.
Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association was summoned to help the boy. The team stretchered him to an ambulance where he was treated for arm injuries.
One of the association’s volunteers, Derek Hammond, said he thought the boy fell “about three or four metres”, putting his arms out to protect himself as he fell.
The volunteer rescue team were at the the National Trust-owned site near Pateley Bridge for 52 minutes.
Just last month, The Stray Ferret wrote about the latest young boy to fall from the rocks.
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