A joint snatch squad of Buxton and Edale Mountain Rescue Teams called to Miller’s Dale station car park at the request of East Midlands Ambulance Service. A 65 year old female casualty, one of a large walking group on the Limestone Way, had slipped in Monk’s Dale and sustained a suspected fractured ankle. The lady, from Chesterfield, was treated on site and then carried on a team stretcher to a roadside ambulance.
All operational members and dog handlers of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team were placed on standby for a potential search for a lost family group.
Five adults with a nineteen month old baby lost their way on the forest path back to the Standingstone carpark after a walk upto the summit of Shutlingsloe. The forest path was in total darkness and the temperature had started to plumit to below freezing. The mention of the baby must have caused serious concern to Cheshire emergency services which responded with two ambulances, a paramedic response vehicle, two police vehicles and a …
Forty members of Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams, together with four search dogs were called in the early hours to the sleepy village of Ashford-in-the-Water, near Bakewell. A bizarre scenario of events had started at 21.30 the previous evening when the police had stopped a vehicle on the A6. Two hours later a man thought to be from the vehicle was seen in the village centre, wet through, and dressed in just his underwear. The air temperature during the night dropped to below -3 degrees and the police asked for mountain rescue help …
An evening telephone call to the police alerted them to a lost couple that had set off walking from Upper Booth via Crowden Brook and then onto the Southern Edge of Kinder Scout. The couple told the police that they were ok and didn’t need immediate assistance but were currently unsure of their exact position. The couple said they would call again when they were safely off the hill but if there had been no contact after two hours, please call the rescue teams.
This information was passed to the Duty Incident Controller for the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation who, because of the severe freezing …
A man and his two teenage sons had been for a New Year’s Day walk on Bleaklow Moor when darkness overtook them.
Search Dog Megan with handler Dave Mason from Buxton Mountain Rescue were called with three other SARDA dogs to support Glossop Mountain Rescue team who had begun a search of moor in darkness and freezing conditions. The alarm had been raised at 17.30 hours by cell-phone but the casualty party estimated their position as being around Snake Summit when in fact they were located several kilometres away in the Alport Valley.
None of the party …