Four rescue teams, eighty-six searching members and five search dogs were deployed onto Kinder Scout to search for two men from Sheffield.  The incident was reported to mountain rescue around 21.30 hours by the police following a mobile phone call received from two men stranded in thick low cloud and darkness somewhere on the Kinder plateau.  

The two men aged 55 and 48 years had set off from Edale about 10.00 hours that morning, with the intention of walking over Kinder Scout and finally descending to Hayfield.  Visibility had been poor all day with light rain and a moderate southwest wind.  As darkness fell the men realised they were lost but still …

The team had just returned to its base at Dove Holes from a day of supporting the Martin Doughty memorial walk when a call was received relating to a walker in the Goyt Valley. 

Thirty team members responded from base and as a result of the radio-pager call to assist a 54 year old female from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.  The lady was part of a large group supervised by a local outdoor centre when a simple slip resulted in a broken lower leg.  Access to the casualty was made easier using the old railway line and team members were soon on scene.  …

Third call to a crag-bound standed animal in just over a week.  As members were packing up from the Roaches call-out another request was received from a farmer in the Goyt Valley relating to a sheep stranded on the water’s edge under a vertical crag.  When team members arrived they found the animal in exactly the same spot as the previous animal rescue. 

Two team members were lowered to secure the sheep in a make-shift harness before all were hauled back to the top.  The sheep was released unharmed.

Poor weather and reduced visibility prevented an air-ambulance attending this incident on the Roaches.  The team was called to rendezvous at Roach End to assist a 34 year old male walker who had slipped and sustained a lower leg injury near Doxey’s Pool on the Roaches ridge.  Ambulance paramedics were first to arrive and treated the casualty who was then loaded onto a mountain rescue stretcher.  Wind and low cloud hampered the 1.5 kilometre carry off to a waiting ambulance which then transferred the man to North Staffordshire Hospital.

Photo:  Low cloud …

Poor weather and reduced visibility prevented an air-ambulance attending this incident on the Roaches.  The team was called to rendezvous at Roach End to assist a 34 year old male walker who had slipped and sustained a lower leg injury near Doxey’s Pool on the Roaches ridge.  Ambulance paramedics were first to arrive and treated the casualty who was then loaded onto a mountain rescue stretcher.  Wind and low cloud hampered the 1.5 kilometre carry off to a waiting ambulance which then transferred the man to North Staffordshire Hospital.
Photo:  Low cloud …