Three Mountain Rescue Teams involved in a lengthy night-time search for a missing person participating in the Bullock Smithy Challenge, a 24hr long distance walk covering 56 miles of the Peak District.

The missing person, a 50 year old male from Hazel Grove, made the Edale Cross checkpoint at 17:30 but failed to make the next one in Edale village. Well into the evening he was reported as overdue and this triggered a search for Buxton team, later supported by both Edale and Kinder. Just before dawn the next day, the missing person turned up where mountain rescue vehicles were waiting …

A joint snatch squad to assist the ambulance service evacuate a local lady from steep slopes near Coombs Dale.

The casualty, a 59 year old woman who lives nearby, was out walking in fine weather with friends, when she slipped on steep grassy slopes and injured the base of her spine. After being treated on scene, the Mountain Rescue Teams carried her on a short but tricky stretcher transfer to a playing field where an air ambulance was waiting. She was thence transported to a hospital in Chesterfield for further treatment.

A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad to assist an injured climber doing Goliath’s Grove, Stanage.

The male casualty had fallen and landed on his back causing impact injuries. He was treated on site, evacuated by stretcher and transferred to an air ambulance for onward journey to a hospital in Sheffield.

A call from East Midlands Ambulance Service following the report of an eighty year old woman having fallen and sustained a shoulder injury.   Early information regarding the location of the incident was very vague and was reported to be ” – on a footpath between Bakewell and Calton Farm!”

The joint Edale and Buxton MRT’s Snatch Squad was placed on standby until a better location was determined.  The incident transpired to have occurred near New Piece Woods on the hillside above Calton Lees Garden Centre on the Chatsworth Estate.  Shortly after the Snatch Squad was redirected to the incident a call from E.M.A.S. stood the teams …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team together with Edale, Derby and Woodhead MRT’s were asked by Derbyshire Police to conduct a further search for a missing person. The search was a continuation of one conducted on 20 August and the police helicopter and rescue boat were involved together with mountain rescue search dogs.

The missing person, a 42 year old man from Dronfield, had not been seen since 19 August and police were concerned for his safety. Away from the footpaths much of the ground is covered by extremely dense undergrowth and was very difficult to search.

Despite good daylight conditions, nothing …