The joint team snatch squad had been alerted to a mountain bike accident but all Buxton members were stood down before arrival at the rendezvous. In the fifteen minutes between call-out and stand-down a number of team members started to make their way towards Plantation car park at Stanage Edge. 

A third party gave this account:  A 20 year old student from Sheffield University, a very exprienced rider, crashed his mountain bike in spectacular fashion. It was first thought that there were significant injuries and the casualty was evacuated by air-ambulance.  Fortunately, it was later …

Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams both called together with a number of search dogs in response to a mobile phone call from a family lost on Kinder Scout.  The family, two adults and a twelve year old girl, were spoken to by incident leaders who were able to get a rough fix of their position on the southern edges.  Searching sections then went from Edale village to locate the family on Upper Tor.  No worse for their ordeal they were led back from the hill….

A report from East Midlands Ambulance prompted the Edale & Buxton MRT snatch squad call out pagers to sound off.  A seventy year old male walker was reported to have tripped and fractured an arm.  Members living close to area quickly arrived at Cubar Gap car park to find the man had been able to make his own way off.  The stand down was therefore sent out before most members had finished tying their boot laces.

Photo:  Walkers on route to Curbar Edge above.

A joint Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Team snatch squad was called to rendezvous in the market place at Castleton following the report of a walker having suffered an ankle injury at the top end of Cave Dale.

The 34 year old man from Sheffield, walking with a friend, had simply slipped on the polished limestone footpath and sustained a suspected fracture to the left ankle.  Rain with a stiff westerly wind made for unpleasant and slippy conditions for everyone in the limestone dale.   The well …

A sixty year old local lady walking with her husband and pet dog had slipped on the muddy paths in Grin Low Country Park and sustained a suspected fracture to the left ankle. Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to rendezvous at Rock Bay Garage on the A54 Buxton – Leek road to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service.

The accident is thought to have occurred about 9.30 am but the first ambulance to arrive was called away again to a more severe incident.  Not until the arrival of the second crew who soon realised …