Stanage Edge (plantation area)

  • Call out for year: 71
  • Date: 11/12/13
  • Time: 12:27 pm
  • Grid ref: SK241 841
  • Type of incident: Climber Injured(1)
  • Team members involved: 4
  • Time taken: 1.5
  • Total man hours: 6

Incident report

Buxton and Edale rescue teams’ Joint Snatch Squad called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service at Stanage where a man had fallen three to four metres from a boulder.  A possible ankle fracture was treated by ambulance paramedics before the casualty was carried by stretcher to the road for transfer to a Chesterfield hospital.       Photo:  Edale and Buxton team members stretchering the casualty to a waiting ambulance.

One comment

  1. pr03clive@peak4x4 response

    Well done to all your team for the dedication and courageous rescues that you all carry out with precision and expertise.

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