Lights, camera – whoops!
2014 was a very special time for Buxton Mountain Rescue Team as it celebrated its Golden Anniversary year. Throughout last year and into 2015 one team member has been keeping a detailed record of events in High Definition with a view to releasing a “year in the life of a rescue team” film later in the year. All aspects of daily team life are being recorded from interesting call-outs, through training exercises to the routine of fundraising, equipment care and team administration.
A call-out on Saturday 31st January (incident 12.) provided some special film footage of winter driving as the team made its way through snow drifts and abandoned vehicles to help a group of walkers on Kinder Scout. Raw TV, a company working on behalf of Channel 4, was interested in the story for a separate documentary about the weather. The TV company sent a crew up to Buxton the following day to interview some of the team members involved and to film the road conditions throughout the Peak District. After interviewing a motorist digging his vehicle from a snow drift the inevitable happened; the film crew’s own 4 x 4 became stuck fast in snow. Fortunately the team’s Land Rover was on hand to do the decent thing earning a small slice of the company’s hospitality budget later spent in the Buxton Tap House.
Watch out around Easter time for the Channel 4 weather documentary.
Photo credit: Crow’s Nest Films