Buxton and Kinder Teams alerted to a report of a missing vulnerable person in the Crowden Brook area. However, as the details of this call were being assessed a second, higher priority, call-out was received for Buxton and Edale rescue teams in the Jacobs Ladder region (see incident 33).
This missing person was traced by police and found to be safe and well before any effective search was commenced.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist the Midlands Air-ambulance following the report of a woman having slipped and injured her lower leg on Chrome Hill.
The lady, from Thornton, Cleveleys, was taking part in a training course when she slipped on the wet ground whilst descending the steep south-east side of Chrome Hill. Treatment on site was by an East Midlands Paramedic assisted by team members who then carried her to the waiting air-craft. However, the bad weather deteriorated even further during the stretcher evacuation preventing the …
A small number of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team members called, together with the Water Safety Section of Kinder M.R.T, to assist Derbyshire Police with the recovery of a deceased adult male from the edge of Fernilee Reservoir.
Kinder and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams called out, together with Search & Rescue Dog Association handlers, when a party of school children was reported over due.
Seven pupils from a Manchester school were participating in training for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme Silver Award when they became disorientated on Kinder plateau. The party had reported that they were in Crowden Brook but two hours after darkness they had still not appeared at their camp-site in Edale.
Kinder M.R T. was deployed to start from Hayfield for a search of the Western edges whilst Buxton would start from Upper Booth to …
