Buxton’s Search Dog Zak with handler Nick Smith were called together with four other Peak District Search Dogs to rendezvous at Heatherdene car park in readiness for a search of Bleaklow.

The search was launched following a report of a seventeen year old male lost on the walk from Edale to Crowden. Fortunately the search controllers were able to pinpoint his position from the information they had received and a police helicopter was able to fly over the youth. A section of Woodhead team members climbed to John Track Well to escort the casualty off

Derbyshire police called for mountain rescue following a 999 call from afamily trapped at the head of Crowden Brook by the steep and slippery conditions caused by the recent heavy rain and snow melt. 

The four family members, on holiday from London, included a  69 year old female, a 43 year old male and two children aged 6 and 4 years.  

The party had left Edale in the morning for what was described in a local guide book as a five mile walk.   The ascent of Kinder Scout was challenging in the conditions with the river swollen …

As the previous call-out was coming to a conclusion another 999 call was received by the police.  This time two walkers had become disorientated in low cloud and rain as they made their way across Kinder’s high plateau. 

Members of Buxton and Edale teams started to plan a search strategy whilst the Duty Rescue Controller spoke to the lost people on a cell-phone.  From their description of the area  the Controller was able to gain a good idea of their position around Mad Woman’s Stones and instructed the missing people to walk due South towards …

A brief call-out for Buxton’s, Nick Smith, with Search Dog, Zak, in support of Buxton and Edale MRTs’ call-out relating to a search for two people lost in low cloud on Kinder Scout. 

No sooner had Zak got his paws muddy, the stand-down was sounded.  See team call-out for fuller details.

A call-out for both Buxton and Edale Mountain Rescue Teams’ as a snatch squad following a 999 report of two men crag fast near to Blue John Cavern near Castleton. 

On arrival team members began to search for the casualties who were known to be within half an hours walk of the cavern.   Whilst the steep faces of Mam Tor were the obvious areas to search, first checks were made down in the deep limestone gullies above Odin Mine. It was here that the two men from Leicester were located.  

The men had set off …