Buxton and Edale joint snatch squad called out following the report of an injured mountain biker in Cave Dale. The accident had occurred following a night of heavy rain which had turned the popular Limestone Way into a river.
The teams rendezvoused near to Castleton Youth Hostel to make the one kilometre ascent up Cave Dale. The injured 44 year old man was an experienced mountain biker from Reading in Berkshire. He was treated on scene by East Midlands Ambulance crew and team first aiders for a suspected fracture of the right femur. Following …
A joint Buxton/Edale snatch squad called to assist a 72 year old lady out walking with a group from the University of the Third Age.
A total of 18 members rendezvoused at Sir William Hill and walked to a position overlooking Bretton Clough where the well equipped and experienced rambler had suffered a knee injury. After treatment by an Edale rescue team doctor, the lady was carried by stretcher for the 1 & 1/2 kilometres back to Sir William Hill where an ambulance was waiting to transfer her to hospital.
Buxton Team, together with Kinder MRT and two search & rescue dogs were called on Saturday night to search for three people stranded in darkness on the Southern side of Kinder Scout.
The party of three young men from Brassacarr in Doncaster had travelled to the Peak for a day’s walking on the moor. They had completed most of their route when darkness and low cloud caught them out in the middle of the plateau. The party leader was well experienced on Kinder and found a way to the edge path but lost …
A full team call out for a 58 year old lady from Two Dales, Matlock, who had been walking with her husband and two friends when she slipped on the steep wet grass. An East Midlands Ambulance paramedic was the first to respond but it was quickly realised that the mountain rescue team would be needed to locate and evacuate the casualty in darkness.
Team members rendezvoused at Grin Low caravan park where they were met by the casualty’s husband and the ambulance crew. The lady, who had sustained suspected fractures to the tibia and fibula …
A full team call out for a 58 year old lady from Two Dales, Matlock, who had been walking with her husband and two friends when she slipped on the steep wet grass. An East Midlands Ambulance paramedic was the first to respond but it was quickly realised that the mountain rescue team would be needed to locate and evacuate the casualty in darkness.
Team members rendezvoused at Grin Low caravan park where they were met by the casualty’s husband and the ambulance crew. The lady, who had sustained suspected fractures to the tibia and fibula …
A joint Buxton and Edale Snatch Squad call-out to assist a 48 year old lady from Sheffield who had slipped on the steep sides of Winnats Pass.
Team members rendezvoused at Speedwell Cavern for a short but steep climb to the casualty site. The lady, who had a suspected lbroken lower leg injury, was treated on site by team members and helli-med crew. She was then carried by stretcher to the waiting South Yorkshire Air-ambulance for the short flight to a Sheffield hospital.
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.