Nineteen members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team responded when West Midlands Ambulance Service called for assistance at an incident in Forest Wood near Gradbach, Staffordshire. A mature lady from Duffield, Derbyshire, had been walking with her husband when a slip resulted in a suspected fractured ankle. The lady was treated by a paramedic from W.M.A.S and team members before being loaded onto a rescue stretcher. The steep hillside created some initial problems but a back-rope provided security and the lady was soon on level ground for …
A full team call-out for Buxton and Edale Mountain Rescue Teams following a report that six members of a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award group were overdue from a walk on the southern edges of Kinder. The group had left Edale with the intention of walking up Jacob’s Ladder and returning to Edale via the southern edge path and down Grindsbrook.
When the group failed to return by by early evening, the alarm was raised and a search of Kinder Scout was put into motion. Mobile phone contact with the group was established but they had little information about their location. However, …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called at 16.00 hours following the report of two people lost in the mist on Kinder Scout. The couple, from Manchester, had walked in reasonable conditions from Upper Booth to Kinder Downfall. However, later in the day the weather deteriorated with cloud dropping to around 350 metres and reducing viability to 5 metres. On their return route from Kinder Downfall the couple became disorientated and lost their way. Concerned that daylight would soon fade and fearful of becoming benighted, they decided to call for help.
Telephone conversations with the couple indicated that they were probably in …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to the Rushop Edge area to assist the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) with an incident on the Chapel Gate track.
A 38 year old male from Manchester was descending the track on his mountain bike towards Edale when the accident occurred. He apparently flew over the handlebars and hit the hard surface suffering facial, shoulder and knee injuries. He was treated on site by an EMAS/Mountain Rescue doctor. His injuries were not thought to be seriously disabling and he was able to walk down with assistance.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to rendezvous at White Lodge car park, later changed to Monsal Head, following the report of a man having collapsed on the riverside path. A team member was walking in the dale at the time and was able to render assistance before the call-out system was activated. Paramedics from East Midlands Ambulance Service were soon on scene followed by sixteen team members.
Following treatment, the man was carried a short distance to a where the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air-ambulance had landed waiting to transfer the casualty to a Sheffield hospital.
Whilst not technically a call-out for the team, team skills and equipment were deployed to assist a man cragfast on the face of Mam Tor. A team member was walking on the Mam Tor ridge when when another walker reported a man fast on the near vertical loose shale of Mam Tor. Using a rope and basic climbing skills the man was assisted to safety.
A night search training exercise developed a realistic twist when two men walking over Kinder were reported overdue. The Sheffield men had set off from Chinley railway station in the morning to walk via Kinder Scout to meet a friend in an Edale pub. When the men were overdue the friend managed to contact them by mobile-phone and learnt that they were lost on the moor. An hour later, the men still hadn’t turned up and phone contact had been lost. The friend decided to act and contacted mountain rescue.
Buxton team was training in just the right place and …
Second call today. The Buxton and Edale Snatch Squad was called at 15.10 to attend a casualty who had suffered a significant injury to his leg. Early confusion regarding the casualty’s location also caused Kinder MRT to be alerted that the man may be on the Hayfield side of Kinder Scout. However, when the casualty’s location was confirmed, Kinder MRT was stood down and the Snatch Squad accessed the accident site from Brown Knoll via Tipps car park, Upper Booth.
The casualty had suffered a severe laceration from broken discarded glass when he sank into a deep peat bog whilst …
The Edale and Buxton Teams’ Joint Snatch called to a mature lady who had been walking with a U3A group from Sheffield when she suffered a medical collapse. She was treated on site by team and air-ambulance doctors doctors before being carried a short distance for evacuation by helicopter to a Sheffield hospital for treatment.
Buxton MRT called to rendezvous at The Leather Smithy Public House, near Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire. Kinder MRT and Cheshire Search and Rescue Team had been previously called to assist in the search for a missing vulnerable male. However, the man was located by police before teams were deployed.
