The incident saw the trip organiser and university club president ignore safety concerns raised by other committee and more experienced club members about the next day's conditions for the selected crag. However, these were dismissed.

Climbing began at Long Scar in the morning before a hailstorm came in a couple hours ahead of forcast. Two climbers on route were pelted and with the wind exposure, particually with the aspect of the crag, became very cold. Both topped out.

One climber's belayer, unaware of their leader's situation due to no communication in the conditions, took their leaders bag of extra layer up to them suspecting they were cold. They found their leader bright pink, shivering, incoherent, and crying with a half built belay. Wet layers taken off and multiple put on, they retreived the only group surivial shelter brought to the crag (theirs personally). The group had brought a group of 25 to the crag. Assisted with putting layers and boots on and warmed up over 20 minutes.

The other leader was ghost white, unable to belay, and would worsen. Another leader releaved them to get layers and warm.

Two potential hypothermia cases.