A volunteer mountain rescuer climbed a waterfall in a Yorkshire national park after severe wintry weather caused it to freeze.
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A volunteer mountain rescuer has told of his joy after he scaled a frozen waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales that appears “very rarely”.
Mick Ellerton, 48, climbed the waterfall in Gordale Scar, near Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, on Wednesday, after temperatures dropped so low it froze over.
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