Whilst team members were fundraising at the Emergency Services Day at Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, a call was received to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service with a short carry of a casualty. A lady had been horse riding in Temple Fields, Buxton, and had been thrown from the horse. A significant back injury was suspected and after E.M.A.S. paramedics had treated the Buxton lady the team gently carried the casualty to the waiting ambulance for her transfer to Stepping Hill Hospital.
Team members and ambulance personnel transfering the casualty from a mountain rescue stretcher to the …
A 39 year old lady from Leicester had collapsed whilst walking and was reported to be in a serious condition. Snatch squad team members already on the hill from a previous incident were diverted and additional resource was called when a new incident was reported in Jagger’s Clough, Kinder Scout.
Team members were quickly on scene in the narrow and steep sided clough which made for difficult casualty handling. An assessment by a mountain rescue doctor highlighted the seriousness of the casualty’s condition and an RAF Seaking helicopter was called from RAF Valley on …
A 39 year old lady from Leicester had collapsed whilst walking and was reported to be in a serious condition. Snatch squad team members already on the hill from a previous incident were diverted and additional resource was called when a new incident was reported in Jagger’s Clough, Kinder Scout.
Team members were quickly on scene in the narrow and steep sided clough which made for difficult casualty handling. An assessment by a mountain rescue doctor highlighted the seriousness of the casualty’s condition and an RAF Seaking helicopter was called from RAF Valley on …
A joint Buxton & Edale snatch squad was called to rendezvous at Edale following the report of an ankle injury just north of Hartshorn on the Kinder plateau.
A 19 year old male, part of a Boy’s Brigade group from Kempston in Bedfordshire, was on expedition as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award scheme. A simple stumble resulted in an open fracture of the lower leg; rather more serious than first reported.
As team members were carrying the equipment towards the accident site the Yorkshire Air-ambulance was able to land near the casualty and quickly transfer him to Sheffield Northern General.
Joint team snatch squad called following an indirect report of 72 year old man with a leg injury caused whilst walking on Kinder Scout. The casualty was also believed to be suffering from the heat of the hottest day of the year so far and was making his way down the Sledge track towards Edale.
Within fifteen minutes, and before any team members were able to start off up the hill, another call was received from East Midlands Ambulance Service stating that paramedics were now with the man who had made …
As team members were packing up from a previous incident at Monsal Dale another was reported; this time on the Upper Tier of the Roaches in Staffordshire.
The pagers were again activated to alert members local to the popular climbing outcrop and the first members arrived within ten minutes of the call and before the air-ambulance.
A 24 year old man had fallen an estimated 10 metres whilst setting up protection for a route on Blushing Buttress. The novice climber from Manchester sustained suspected injuries to his back and confirmed injuries to his upper right arm …
East Midlands Ambulance Service alerted mountain rescue to an incident by the side of the River Wye in Monsal Dale. A road-ambulance and an air-ambulance were already on route but it was thought the remote location and the steep sides of Monsal Dale might necessitate the assistance of a rescue team to extract the casualty. Fifteen members of Buxton team assembled at Monsal Head car park where the first few were able to assist the professionals with a carry to the air-ambulance which had found sufficient space to land in the dale bottom….
East Midlands Ambulance Service contacted mountain rescue to inform it that an air ambulance had been directed to a 62 female casualty on Combs Moss. The casualty, one of a rambling club group, was on the western side of Combs Moor above Allstone Lea Farm and was believed to have suffered a fractured leg.
Radio pagers were activated to summon team members to the team’s rescue base at Dove Holes. Groups could be ferried up to the nearest access point to the incident where it is difficult to park vehicles. As the first group of …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team together with Glossop, Kinder and Edale MRTs called late on a Sunday night following the report of two overdue walkers on a moorland stretch of the Pennine Way. Six search dogs, including Megan & Cap, were also called to look for the two 51 year old females walking the final leg of the Pennine Way between Crowden and Edale.
The weather during the day had not been kind with local heavy showers and strong winds across the moors. The weather mixed with tired sore feet delayed the couple who should have completed the day at 17.30 hours at …
It has still to be determined whether this incident was a malicious hoax or the product of a disturbed mind shouting for attention but it resulted in over forty mountain rescuers tramping the Peak District’s eastern rock outcrop edges throughout Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Mountain rescue became involved when police asked for assistance in a search for a 37 year old male who had made mobile phone calls suggesting that he may harm himself. He was believed to be on open ground between the Derwent Valley and Hathersage. Buxton and Edale teams responded with forty …