MEMBERS of Clapham's Cave Rescue Organisation turned out three times last night.

The first call was received at 5.40pm after two 16-year-old girls were reported missing while doing the Three Peaks walk.

Nothing had been heard from them since they had turned round near the summit of Whernside five hours earlier, intending to return to Ribblehead. One was asthmatic and had left her inhaler in the organiser’s car.

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The girls evenutally turned up in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, safe and well as CRO members were deploying to backtrack from Ribblehead to Whernside.

Just over three hours later, two more Three Peaks walkers - men, both aged 20 - called for an ambulance, saying that one was unable to continue because their legs had seized and that they were ‘at the base of Ingleborough’ and ‘could see the B6479’.

As a local CRO member was covering the road between Selside and Horton, the licensee of The Old Hill Inn, Chapel-le-Dale, rang to say that they were there, but that they had believed it to be The Crown, at Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

The final call was received just after 9pm when a 24-year-old man, also doing the Three Peaks, pulled a hamstring, descending from Ingleborough to Simon Fell Breast.

His four companions helped him as best they could, but realised they would not make it to Horton-in-Ribblesdale. With CRO on the way, they reached Sulber Nick, where they were met by the CRO and transported off the hill.