A YOUNG person on a group visit to Malham, slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove and suffered a suspected broken bone.
The female, who fell at around 2pm on Thursday last week, was helped by ambulance staff and was stretchered to a Cave Rescue Organisation Landrover and driven to Malham to a waiting ambulance.
A spokesperson for the Clapham based CRO said: "The footpath across the top of Malham Cove crosses a wonderful area of limestone pavement, comprising large blocks of bedrock called clints, separated by deep cracks known as grikes.
"A young person, on a group visit to Malham, was walking across the limestone pavement at the top of the cove when her foot and lower leg slipped into a grike.
"She reported that she heard a cracking noise and that her foot was stuck. A team from Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) was able to give the young person some pain relief, before splinting her leg to provide support for a suspected fracture and lifting her leg up and out of the grike.
"CRO team members were on hand to package the young person onto a stretcher and carry her across the limestone pavement to one of the teams Landrovers. We drove her and one of her group leaders down to Malham village for her transfer to a YAS vehicle."
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