A call at 17.00 hours from East Midlands Ambulance Service requesting assistance with a injured walker in the Goyt Valley caused some initial resource problems.  The incident was squarely in Buxton team’s operational area but twenty members were already committed to a search on Kinder Scout.  A second radio-pager call-out raised eight members who had been unable to attend the search but were now available.   A team vehicle with the necessary rescue equipment was diverted from the Kinder search and Kinder MRT was also able to call on five extra members to assist.  Knowing that the Goyt incident was …

Kinder and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams called out when a man reported himself and partner lost on Kinder plateau.  The mid-afternoon call started when the man and woman from Lincolnshire phoned the police stating they had gone on to Kinder via Jacobs Ladder but had become disorientated in the thick low cloud and drizzle.   They were not in any immediate danger so initially just the two rescue teams were called together with two search dogs.

Whilst a direct mobile phone had been lost the police had been able to establish a rough area from which the call had been made …

The Full Kinder Search Plan was activated to locate a 22 year old man reported to be lost on the Kinder plateau.  The man was known to be a fit and experienced walker who had already had a long day starting his walk in the Derwent Valley.  His last phone contact with relatives placed him in the darkness somewhere on Kinder Scout and in thick low cloud and driving rain.

The call came just ten minutes after team members had stood down from the previous four hour search of the plateau.  However, twenty-six Buxton members responded to the call returning to …

Late in the afternoon a man rang 999 to report himself lost around the Edale Cross area of Kinder Scout.

The weather at the time was clear so initially only Kinder MRT was activated.  When nothing was found, mobile-phone connection was lost and the weather had started to deteriorate, Buxton MRT and local search dogs were called in to assist.   A further hour on and with all the local paths checked, the onset of darkness and a further deterioration of the weather, the full Kinder search plan was activated calling in Glossop and Edale mountain rescue teams.

As the extra search …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service following the report of a casualty on the footpath leading down into Monsal Dale.

A lady from Nottinghamshire had fallen on the path and sustained a serious leg injury.  Paramedics from East Midlands Ambulance Service were first on scene and treated the lady and administered pain relief.  Team members, assisted by police officers, then loaded the casualty onto a rescue stretcher for a short but steep carry back to Monsal Head where the ambulance was waiting to transfer her to a Chesterfield hospital.

Initial reports had been of a simple accident on the valley path but the reality turned out to be different.

A 45 year old man was competing in the “Edale Beer Barrel Race” when he tumbled approximately 50 feet down the hillside between Upper and Nether Tor above Grindsbrook.   The man was now lying high on the clough-side and is believed to have suffered a reduced level of consciousness for a considerable period.

Buxton and Edale rescue teams were called together but it was Edale M.R.T. which had members immedia…

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called in the late afternoon to The Sloth area of The Roaches in Staffordshire following the report of a climber having injured his shoulder.  To complicate the incident, the climber was now on a belay ledge some 20 metres from the ground.
The climber, a man from Macclesfield, had been solo-climbing on Technical Slab when reaching for a hand-hold caused a suspected dislocation of his shoulder.  Keeping cool and calm in a very precarious position and despite great pain, the climber managed …

Buxton and Edale Joint Team Snatch Squad called to rendezvous at Tipps Car-park, Upper Booth, Edale following the report of a man suffering severe abdominal pain whilst walking on the Pennine Way between Edale and Upper Booth.

Rescue team members were quickly with the casualty as were East Midlands Ambulance Paramedics and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air-ambulance.  For medical reasons the decision was made to transfer the casualty to hospital by land ambulance so the man, from Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, was carried the short distance to meet the ambulance at Upper Booth Farm.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service after a report of a rock climber having fallen at Aldery Cliff.

The experienced 25 year old climber from Stone in Staffordshire is thought to have been on a route named Nettle Rash (V.S.) and was abseiling back down the crag when the accident occurred.  He fell approximately 20 feet landing on his back on a limestone ledge.

Initial treatment was completed by E.M.A.S. staff before the rescue team placed him on a stretcher for the …

Around seventy members from four Peak District Mountain Rescue Teams and search dogs  commenced a search of Kinder Plateau following a call from a 67 year old man saying he was lost on the moor.

The weather had been poor all day and low cloud reduced viability on land above 1,000 feet to just a few yards.  The man had left Upper Booth in the early afternoon and had soon become disorientated but darkness compounded the problem and rescue teams were called around 10.00 pm.   Buxton, Edale, Kinder and …