Buxton Mountain Rescue was called to Cressbrook Dale, near Litton, to assist the ambulance services with an injured walker.
The casualty, a 74 year old man from Northenden, Manchester, had fallen from the height of Peter’s Stone, a local landmark, and rolled 15 metres onto a rough scree slope above the valley floor. He sustained head injuries along with body lacerations and grazes.
[caption id="attachment_8659" align="alignleft" width="360"] Lowering the stretcher in Cressbrook Dale[/caption]
Paramedics from the East Midlands Ambulance Service, and the Derbyshire Air Ambulance, treated him on site.
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A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to the Chapel Gate track off Rushop Edge on Wednesday afternoon to assist the ambulance service with an injured hill walker.

Two walkers, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, a male and female in their 70s requested assistance with an ankle injury. Their reported location was the Chapel Gate Track on the Edale side. However, they were not located at the point given, and a local search was organised during which they were found on the Dalehead footpath above Whitemoor Clough.

A shelter tent was quickly opened for the female casualty to provide protection from the …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team responded to a call for assistance from two lost walkers.

The walkers, in their sixties from the Greater Manchester area, were walking the southern edges of Kinder Scout in thick mist, when they became separated. The weather conditions at the time was of extremely poor visibility, icy underfoot, with an increasing windchill.

The information received indicated they separated in the Pym Chair area. Fortunately they located one another quite quickly and continued along the southern edge. Team members were deployed into the area and the walkers were met by a Buxton section as they descended the Pennine …

A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to a walking incident near Bretton CLough.

The casualty, a lady walking with a group, had slipped on a muddy path and sustained a lower leg/ankle injury. The injury was treated on site by the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA) paramedic crew and team members. She was then placed into a vacuum mattress and stretcher for evacuation by team members across very slippery terrain to the road head.

A land ambulance transferred her to hospital for further treatment.

Search Dog, Megan, and her handler, were called to assist Derby MRT to search for a missing person after initial police activity had not located her.

The person, a 73 year old woman, was believed to have left her house at 6am. She had not returned within a resonable time despite the harsh weather conditions which was very wet and cold with snow. 31 rescue team volunteers and 5 mountain rescue search dogs were inolved in the subsequent operation, searching fields, woodland, and areas of waste ground on the outskirts of the town.

The woman was eventually located by Search Dog, Biscuit, …