A Paraglider had to be airlifted to hospital after a dramatic rescue.
Bill Bankes-Jones, 45, crashed on a hillside near Addlebrough, in Wensleydale, after accidentally releasing his emergency parachute.
Rescue teams had to abandon their vehicles and set out on foot to reach him. The first to find the casualty, not far from Worton and Bainbridge, was community paramedic Pete Shaw, who is based at Leyburn.
"Only with the help of a police officer, the landowner and the helicopter did the ambulance crew manage to get the casualty," he said.
The drama happened on Bank Holiday Monday as Mr Bankes-Jones, a physiotherapist from Norwich, was doing his paraglider training. He was airlifted to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton
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