Kinder Mountain Rescue Team was first to be alerted to an injured 28 year old female walker on the Kinder edge path somewhere between Noe Stool and Pym’s Chair.

Kinder team sent a vehicle with a small party via the rough track from Hayfield to Edale Cross from where the essential equipment was carried towards the casualty.

Buxton M.R.T. was still in the area having just concluded a task on Rushop Edge with Edale …

Buxton and Edale Mountain Rescue Teams called by East Midlands Ambulance Service to assist a male paraglider on Rushup edge, near Castleton.

His canopy had collapsed causing him to fall approximately  10 metres sustaining suspected injuries to his back, pelvis and possibly internal injuries to the abdomen.   The Derbyshire Rutland and Leicestershire Air-ambulance was on scene before team members and medical treatment was carried out by the crew of the aircraft.

Owing to the potential seriousness of the injuries, team members wasted no time in helping to prepare …

Team called by North West Ambulance Service to an incident on Shuttlingsloe in the Wildboarclough area near Macclesfield.

Vehicles and team members were responding when a “Stand Down” was received about fifteen minutes later.

No details of the incident are yet known.

The Joint Snatch Squad of Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams was called following the report of two men in difficulties on Kinder Scout.  The men were on a circular walk from Hayfield when one developed an ankle problem.

Original information was sketchy and Kinder Team had been alerted first but when the location of the pair was fixed by their mobile phone signal as Grindsbrook, the two local teams took over.

The weather at the time was cold and wet with low cloud and light wind so the onset of hypothermia was a real possibility.  Rescue team members soon climbed to …

With several incidents being reported simultaneously in the north of the Peak, part of Edale M.R.T. went to the assistance of  Woodhead M.R.T. in Grenoside Woods, north of Sheffield.  So when another incident was reported on Edale M.R.T.’s patch it was Buxton’s turn to help the neighbours.

A mountain biker had taken a tumble above Fulwood Stile Farm in the Edale valley sustaining spine and pelvic injuries.

Edale members were quickly on site from their base at Hope and initial treatment was begun.   Fortunately, a Coast Guard S92 helicopter was training nearby …