Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist a female walker having difficulty getting off Kinder Scout.  The lady, accompanied by her daughter, had a previous medical condition and had become exhausted.   The casualty was quickly located at the top of Crowden Brook under Crowden Towers and following examination was assisted to walk off the hill.

First reports indicated that a stretcher evacuation was likely so the necessary equipment was deployed from Upper Booth.  Edale Mountain Rescue Team was also called to assist in the event of a carry-off but fortunately the lady was able to walk all the way down.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called by West Midlands Ambulance Service to assist with the evacuation of an injured rock climber.

The 33 year old man from Camberley, Suffolk, had fallen about eight metres from the Jeffcoat’s Chimney area of the Roaches.  He sustained facial lacerations and injuries to a shoulder and elbow.

On site treatment was by East Midlands Ambulance doctors and paramedics before the casualty was loaded on to a rescue stretcher and carried by team members down to the road where a land ambulance was waiting for onward transport to a Staffordshire hospital.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service following a report of a cycling accident on The Monsal Trail between Millers Dale and Monsal Head.

A 63 year old gentleman from New Mills had fallen from his cycle and sustained a suspected arm fracture whilst riding in the company of his son.  The Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Rutland Air-ambulance was also scrambled and the crew, including a doctor, were first on scene.

There was no real work for the rescue team as a land ambulance was …

Nineteen members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team responded at 22.40 on Friday evening to a call-out to assist two mature ladies who had become trapped on very steep and slippery ground in Chee Dale.  

The ladies’s who were experienced walkers, one from Buxton and the other a friend from Eastbourne, had set off for an afternoon’s ramble from Millers Dale.   The traumatic events started when they took a route which they believed to be a path back towards the Monsal Trail.  Footprints reassured the ladies that they were …

A joint call-out for the Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Snatch Squad following the report of a medical collapse on the footpath towards the summit of  Win Hill.

Despite the best efforts of the casualty’s friends, the air-ambulance professionals and rescue team members, resuscitation was sadly ineffective.

Team members offer their sincere condolences to the casualty’s friends and family.