Buxton Team together with colleagues from Derby and Kinder Teams assembled at the Waterloo Inn, Taddington for a pre-arranged police search involving a missing male.

The local man has been missing for some time. Police enquires had identified a number of areas in the Taddington Dale and Monsal Dale areas, where he may have met with an accident.

Mountain rescue personnel were deployed into the steep, heavily wooded dale sides, which also included a number of cliff faces. Searching this sort of terrain presents some degree of difficulty for rescuers and is very labour intensive.

During the day, a number of items were …

Four rescue teams from Buxton, Edale, Kinder and Glossop together with a number of Search Dog Units were called at dawn following the report of a male fell-runner missing overnight. 

The usual Kinder South search plan was activated with the four teams starting to assemble in readiness to send members across the moor from various starting points.  Buxton MRT was to work from Edale Station but fortunately, as members were being deployed, the runner managed to find his way back to Crookstone Barn.  Having spent a cold night on the hill and suffering an ankle injury he was transported by a rescue team …

Search Dogs, Megan and Zak, along with their handlers, Dave Mason and Nick Smith, had an early wake-up call on Saturday morning to assist in a search of Kinder’s southern edges after a fell-runner was reported missing.

They were stood-down when Mountain Rescue personnel located the casualty at Crookstone Barn. See team post on same date for more details.

A Joint Edale and Buxton MRT Call-out for a 30 year old male climber who fell whilst leading at Stanage, sustaining a head and neck injury. After treatment on scene by mountain rescue members along with air ambulance staff, he was evacuated from the crag and to the air ambulance at the bottom, before being taken to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. His climbing helmet was significantly damaged in the incident – however, wearing the helmet prevented him from sustaining a much more serious injury.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to the disused limestone quarries at Harpur Hill above Buxton.  The quarry, long since abandoned, is a mecca for serious climbers offering a number of quality routes both free and aided.  The down side of the is that, like most old quarries, the rock can be unstable following blasting and years of water / frost penetration.

Two mature climbers were attempting an E5 route known as Hollowman when the leader allegedly dislodged a loose flake of limestone which crashed to the ground striking a glancing blow to his belaying partner.  …