The second call was received at 00:32. Snow was lying to a good depth and had been drifting across the narrow lanes making access difficult. Team members attended a remote cottage in the same area as the previous call, using the Hilux (Mobile 1) and Mobile 4 as well as on foot, following some of the routes as per the previous call.

The occupant was found on the floor of his home had been there for several hours and was unable to get up. After a thorough examination, he was found to be cold but …

The team were called on two ocassions to the same area. Derbyshire Constabulary received a request from Staffordshire Police, for Buxton Mountain Rescue to carry out several welfare checks on residents who had been cut off by drifting snow and had experienced power cuts.

The first checks were carried out by a small number of personnel in one of the team’s 4x4s, the Defender (Mobile 4). The main area of concern was around the Flash & Knotbury area. Snow ploughs had cleared some of the side roads, but they were not 100% …

Another wintery call out for the team.

A walker out experiencing the wild weather of the Peak District National Park, took a slip sustaining a lower leg injury. We received the call out shortly after this year’s Casualty Care exam had finished at our base at Buxton Fire Station.

Similar to Saturday’s call out, team members were required to meet at the fire station to enable safe transportation via the team’s 4x4s to the casualty site, which was near Booths Farm, High Edge.

On arrival, casualty care …

Whilst this job was ongoing, a second call came in to assist North West Ambulance Service, with another medical collapse at Teggs Nose.

Due to resources being tasked to the ongoing incident (call 82), the team requested assistance from Cheshire Search and Rescue & Kinder Mountain Rescue Team.

Team members were called to assist EMAS and the Police due to the heavy snow that had fallen in the area.

As the stretcher party and casualty were descending the valley from the previous call out, a cacophony of phone ring tones went off alerting the teams to a further callout on Mam Tor. Team members who had not attended the first callout were now required to make their way to the second call out.

Once the Nether Tor casualty was on more straightforward terrain further team members were released to make a rapid descent to the valley floor and head to Mam Tor.

The second casualty of the day was …

The Edale Valley is a superb location in which residents and visitors can enjoy outdoor activities, and Buxton MRT and Edale Mountain Rescue Team are on hand when things don’t quite go to plan. Joint callouts are commonplace to provide sufficient team members to deal with incidents safely and this weekend was no exception.

Both teams were busy today working together to carry out rescues on Nether Tor and then Mam Tor. In the first instance a fell runner training for the Edale Skyline Race slipped sustaining a lower leg injury on the …

The team was called out at 15:29 on Saturday afternoon to a walker who had fallen sustaining a painful lower back injury. Team members made their way to the designated RV point at Edale Station.

The first four team members headed up onto Kinder from the Nags Head pub along the path towards Grindslow Knoll. The casualty, who was with walking friends, was located on the Edale path that overlooks Grindsbrook. Due to the prospect of a long stretcher carry off, Edale Mountain Rescue Team was also tasked and as the nature of …

A member of an organised walking group came to grief after slipping in the mud on the path up from Cressbrook Dale. With the casualty unable to weight bear after sustaining a lower leg injury during the fall, members of the party dialled 999 and asked for Police and then Mountain Rescue.

Buxton MRT deployed two 4×4 vehicles which were able to drive to a point close to the casualty, and a team paramedic was able to carry out the initial medical assessment. A decision was made to place the patient on our mountain …

With strong winds buffeting the high fells and bouts of heavy rain, there was an air of inevitably when a callout came through in the early evening. A party of walkers on the Kinder plateau had struggled with boggy conditions underfoot and had lost sight of the correct route off the plateau. With daylight fading rapidly, and soaked through from the driving rain, they sensibly alerted Derbyshire Constabulary, who in turn contacted Buxton MRT.

Team vehicles met at the Edale main car park and, ignoring the delights of the village’s firework display, a …