Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to rendezvous at the Roaches, near Upper Hulme in Staffordshire to assist climbers.

An incident had occurred on the lower tier whereby a 38 year old male rock climber from Shrewton, Wiltshire, was injured when a large rock slab on which he had been climbing was dislodged.  The climber was on the classic VS 4b, 4c, 39 metre route known as Valkyrie when the slab, about the size of a single mattress, came off and struck his arm and head.

Thankfully, the climber had been wearing a helmet …

A Buxton and Edale joint snatch squad was called on Sunday afternoon to respond to the report of a man having collapsed on Mam Tor, near Castleton.

The seriousness of the incident soon became apparent when East Midlands Ambulance Control alerted the teams that cardiopulmonary resuscitation had already been started by members of the public on Mam Tor.   The Yorkshire air-ambulance was landing on the summit as team members arrived at the rendezvous point and paramedics were with the casualty within minutes.  Snatch squad rescue team members quickly climbed the popular tourist route bearing additional medical equipment.

Whilst resuscitation …

A joint Edale & Buxton Mountain Rescue snatch squad call-out was initiated in a weekend afternoon following the report of a casualty having collapsed on the Monsal Trail near Rowdale.

Eight Buxton team members rendezvoused with ten Edale team members on the A6020 between Ashford and Hassop Station roundabout to assist a 61 year old female walker from Wigan who had felt unwell whilst out walking.

Fortunately the lady recovered sufficiently to be able to walk with assistance to the road.  The lady declined to go to hospital and the teams stood …

Team called to Hen Cloud near the Roaches in Staffordshire following the report of a fallen climber.

On arrival the team found a 37 year old female from Wirksworth in Derbyshire being treated by paramedics from the Midlands Air-ambulance and crew from a West Midlands Ambulance.  First Responders from Flash were also on site so with all first aid in hand the team set about rigging a rope system to steady the stretcher as the casualty was lowered from near the top of Hen Cloud to a position from where she could be transferred to the helicopter.   Chest high bracken hampered the evacuation …

Early on Monday morning 18 members of the Buxton and Edale joint snatch squad responded to a call to assist a 64 year old walker.   A simple slip had resulted in a suspected fracture to the right ankle for the local man from Buxton.  

An air-ambulance was just approaching the scene as team members arrived but the helicopter was unable to land on the steep sides of Mam Tor.  So it was up to the rescue team members to carry the casualty in the old fashioned way before loading him into a land ambulance.

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