The second call to be received relating to the icy weather was to assist a disabled couple stranded in the Monks Dale area near Tideswell.

Four members in two team 4×4 vehicles were dispatched from the rescue base at Dove Holes and spent three hours combing all the minor roads in the area.  It was a slow job in the freezing conditions which turned the road surface into sheets of ice.

Despite an extensive search no trace of the couple was found and the members went to the aid of those other team members still working in the Goyt Valley.  see incident 76.

The first real signs of winter caused havoc in the Goyt Valley on Saturday night.  Just a few millimetres of frozen snow lying on the untreated minor roads turned them into to skating rinks.  All was quiet during the day but just turned 9.00 pm two calls were received virtually simultaneously.

The first call came when Derbyshire police requested Buxton Mountain Rescue Team to assist two motorists reported to be stranded in the Goyt Valley near to Errwood Hall.

The team responded with its latest all-wheel drive response vehicle and a number of members in their private 4×4 …

The Buxton Mountain Rescue team along with colleagues from Edale M.R.T. was  called to Cave Dale, Castleton following reports of a fallen climber.  

A 21 year old male had been scrambling on the limestone outcrop when he suffered a fall.  A rescue team doctor and paramedic treated the man for a variety of complaints before he was placed on a stretcher and carried down to Castleton.  An East Midlands ambulance was waiting to transfer the casualty to a Sheffield hospital..

A report of an elderly male visitor having collapsed below ground in Blue John Cavern, near Castleton, caused twenty rescuers from Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, Edale Mountain Rescue Team and Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation, to rendezvous at the famous show cave.

Early reports suggested he was deeper in the cavern than was actually correct and East Midlands Ambulance staff were able to access the patient to make an assessment.   Following rest and treatment the 77 year old man from Burnley was assisted back to the surface for a more thorough examination in the ambulance.

There was no real work for the rescuers and many were able …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called by the West Midlands Air-ambulance to assist in the evacuation of a casualty from The Roaches, Staffordshire.

A 37 year old female from Hackney had fallen 3 – 4 metres whilst “bouldering” sustaining a suspected fracture of an ankle.  The lady was treated by air-ambulance crew before she was placed on a rescue stretcher to be carried by team members to the aircraft waiting some distance away.  Following transfer into the helicopter the casualty was airlifted to The Royal Stoke Hospital….