High Wheeldon, Earl Sterndale.

  • Call out for year: 91
  • Date: 18/12/16
  • Time: 9:44 pm
  • Grid ref: SK 1000 6600
  • Type of incident: Walker Injured(1)
  • Team members involved: 15
  • Time taken: 1.25 hours
  • Total man hours: 18.75 hours

Incident report

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called by Derbyshire police following the report from a Cheshire walking group of an high-wheeldon-dec-2016accident on Wheeldon Hill, Earl Sterndale.

A lady had slipped on the wet hillside and sustained a suspected fracture ankle.  Team members rendezvoused at High Wheeldon Farm for the climb to the hill top casualty site.  Following assessment and treatment by team members the lady was placed on a rescue stretcher before being carried down to a waiting ambulance for transport to a Macclesfield hospital.

Photo credit:  BMRT  –  Stretcher party descending Wheeldon Hill.

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