Ramshaw Rocks, Staffordshire

  • Call out for year: 34
  • Date: 25/04/10
  • Time: 12:00 pm
  • Grid ref: SK017 623
  • Type of incident: Walker Injured(1)
  • Team members involved: 19
  • Time taken: 2 hours
  • Total man hours: 38

Incident report

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to Ramshaw Rocks near Leek.   A 50 year old male from Ashbourne had sustained a knee injury whilst walking with a small group of friends.  The accident caused a painful injury which was treated on site by team first-aiders before the casualty was carried by stretcher to the roadside to await an ambulance.

One comment

  1. Paul Gratton

    I was that 50 year old male – thanks for reminding me about my age!

    I would just like to say a massive thank you for carrying me off the hill – particularly as I am 6’5″ and not that slim! It turns out I had dislocated my knee and in the process ruptured my Cruciate, torn the medial, damaged both cartilages and had a compression fracture of my fibula. That said I am having surgery this week to reconstruct the ACL and hopefully will be on the hills again before too long.

    Thank you so much to Neil and Kerry (whose names I think I remember) and everyone else involved and really sorry I didn’t fall over earlier on Hens cloud as I sem to recall you could land helicopters there and that would have saved you the effort of lifting me down!

    Fantastic job guys – well done and for ever grateful.

    Paul

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