A search dog and handler were tasked to join the team on a call-out to look for a group of overdue teenagers on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition.
The dog team were finishing a SARDA training exercise when the call came. They were stood down en-route when it was clear the party had been safely located.
Please see post for Team Call-out (number 24) on same date, for details
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team were asked to search for a party of teenagers believed lost in the Goyt Valley area on Sunday.
The group of 5 girls from the Suffolk area were taking part in a Duke of Edinburgh Award practice expedition and were last seen climbing up towards Shining Tor. They had not reported into any checkpoints and were 2 hours overdue.
The party leaders were concerned and provided route details intended for the group. Team members were deployed onto various footpaths, on either side of the Shining Tor Ridge into the Jenkin Chapel and Lamaload areas to the west and …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team together with the East Midlands Ambulance Service were called to Windgather Rocks, near Kettleshume on Wednesday afternoon.
The casualty, a 21 year old male from the Northhants area, had been leading a climb known as “Face Route1” in the Buttress One area of the crag. He came off, his protection failed and he fell about 20 feet to the ground, sustaining pelvic, shoulder and back injuries.
He was treated on site by the ambulance crew and team personnel, including splinting and pain relief. He was then placed on a vacuum mattress, and carried to the roadside on a …
A Buxton Team member was walking the Monsal Trail with his family on Sunday when they came across an injured cyclist. The incident was reported and Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist the ambulance service.
A 40 year old female from Sheffield was cycling along the trail near Bakewell, when a walker stepped out in front of her. The cyclist swerved to avoid the walker and came off her bike, sustaining serious injuries to both arms. She was treated on site by ambulance service paramedics and evacuated on our specialist stretcher a few hundred metres to Bakewell Station. …
A Buxton and Edale snatch squad was called to Speedwell Cavern, Castleton.
A 12 year old boy from Salford, part of a larger group of young people and a leader, were on the steep sided Winnats Pass when he sustained a suspected fracture/dislocation of his ankle.
Team members located the group about 130 feet up the very steep, wet, slippery slope of the pass. The ambulance service paramedics treated the casualty on site. Meanwhile, the other youngsters in the group were becoming increasingly anxious and restless. It was raining heavily, the hillside was becoming increasingly slippery, loose rocks were being dislodged and …