Buxton Team was called to the Monsal Trail following reports of a cragfast female and her dog.

We were informed the woman was walking her Labrador dog when the dog went onto a ledge on the steep rock wall. The owner followed, and both were then crag fast on the stone embankment between the Litton and Cressbrook Tunnels above Water-Cum-Jolly Dale. Luckily, a passing walker was able to scramble down and coaxed them both back up onto the trail.

The team was stood down on arrival.

A joint Buxton and Edale snatch squad was called to Castleton at lunchtime to assist the East Midlands Ambulance Service.

A 65 year old lady from Handforth, Cheshire, was walking along the footpath above Goosehill Hall when she slipped and sustained a suspected fractured ankle. She was treated on site by the ambulance service paramedics, placed onto a stretcher and carried to the road by team personnel. From there she was transferred into the waiting ambulance and taken to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, for further treatment.

A Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to Edale village to attend a casualty who had fallen about 3 metres from a rope swing, and landed in the river.

The casualty, a 16 year old female from Cudworth, Barnsley, sustained pelivic injuries. She was treated on site by the helicopter doctor, and carried a short distance by team members to the Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland Air Ambulance which flew her to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.

On Monday afternoon the team was called by Derbyshire Police to an injured walker believed to be on the Monsal Trail, near Millers Dale.

Further information indicated the casualty was above the Monsal Trail on an area known as the plate layers track, which is a high level path linking Litton Mill and Cressbook. We located the casualty, a lady aged 45 years from Rotherham, above the cliffs overlooking Water Cum Jolly Dale. She was walking with a friend when she slipped on the steep ground. In an attempt to arrest her fall, she sustained a suspected fractured wrist.

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An Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue snatch squad was activated when the East Midlands Ambulance Service called for assistance at Peveril Castle, Castleton.

A 13 year old girl from Kingsley, Norfolk, staying locally at Gradbach Scout Camp, was walking with a friend down a steep grassy bank inside the castle when one of them slipped and fell onto the girl, knocking her over. She sustained what are believed to be minor lower leg injuries, and was treated on site by an ambulance service paramedic and team personnel.

Following treatment she was placed on our stretcher and carried down the steep path …