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Rescue cuts celebrations short
Rescue volunteer Brian Boardman celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first callout by manning the control room while colleagues went to the aid of an injured climber.
The alarm was raised as members of the Clapham-based Cave Rescue Organisation were about to tuck into a celebratory cake on Sunday afternoon.
The festivities were put on hold as Mr Boardman went to the control room to co-ordinate the rescue operation and fellow members went to Malham Cove to help the climber, who had fallen and fractured her lower leg. She was carried to a waiting air ambulance.
It was the second of three CRO call-outs this week. The first was just before 5am on Sunday when a brief search of Ingleborough was organised to find a 61-year-old walker, from Norfolk, who was missing from a Long Distance Walkers' Association overnight event.
He was found at the summit shelter by two CRO members, just a few minutes before the arrival of a Sea King helicopter, from RAF Leconfield. The helicopter carried the missing man and the rescuers back to the CRO base in time for breakfast.
On Tuesday, the CRO assisted colleagues from the Lake District to rescue a climber in her early thirties, who had got her knee stuck in a crack at the top of a pitch on Gimmer Crag, in Langdale.
Mountain rescue teams from Ambleside and Kendal were called out, but they also sent for the CRO, with its rock-removal equipment.
An RAF helicopter flew members and equipment to the top of Gimmer Crag from where they abseiled down to the climber.
She was freed after a small amount of rock was removed and, despite being stuck in the same position for seven hours, the woman was able to abseil down to the base of the crag and then walk, unaided, down the valley.
11:53am Friday 9th May 2008
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