Kinder Scout
Call out for year: 15
Date: 7/02/10
Time: 8:25 pm
Grid ref: SK 080 882
Type of incident: Walker, Search benighted, (2)
Number of team members involved: 21
Time taken: 5
Total man hours: 105
Buxton MRT along with three other teams and three search dogs were called following a message from a man with his son lost on the Kinder plateau.
Operating from Edale, the team commenced a search of the southern edges for the man and his 13 year old son who had become disorientated in thick low cloud and darkness after a day’s walking. Although in cell-phone contact with rescue control, the man was unable to give any clear indication of his whereabouts and a full scale search of the moor was commenced.
Eventually the two, from Salford, Manchester, were located by a search dog team operating from Hayfield and were escorted off the moor.
