Buxton Mountain Rescue called to evacuate a woman in the Biggin Dale area.

The casualty, a 80 year old female, from Bedfordshire, was part of a walking party staying at Hartington Youth hostel. Whilst walking, she slipped on uneven ground and sustained  arm and facial injuries. Fortunately the walking group were able to find a position where they could get a mobile phone signal and were able to summon assistance. The casualty was treated on site by MR team members before being evacuated by stretcher down Biggin Dale and along Beresford Dale. This was an extended evacuation and had to be completed by fording …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was deployed to an incident on the Roaches, Staffordshire late on Saturday afternoon following the report of a walking accident.

A 17 year old male from London, on holiday with a family group, was walking along the top of  the Roaches outcrop when a stumble resulted in a suspected fractured leg. Sixteen team members climbed to the accident site close to Doxey Pool.  After treatment by team first aiders the young man was carried by rescue stretcher for over a kilometre to a waiting West Midlands ambulance for …

In the dark, early hours, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist our Kinder Team colleagues with a search in the New Mills area.

A 53 year old local resident had been reported missing from home. The immediate neighbourhood was searched without success, so the search was extended to include the Sett Valley Trail, Hayfield, Lantern Pike, and the plateau and lower slopes of Kinder Scout. Due to the extensive area covered by search teams, additional resources were called in. This included a further 4 Peak District Mountain Rescue Teams (Glossop, Oldham, Woodhead and Edale), together with 6 Search and …

Buxton Team was requested to assist an elderly farmer near to Axe Edge who became snow bound when her farmhouse was smothered in 8 ft snow drifts.

One of the teams 4×4 vehicles was deployed with 2 team members. Snow drifts of more than 8 feet virtually covered the farmhouse, and more importantly the external boiler flue, preventing it being used. Team personnel cleared the boiler flue and restored the heating. The then dug out and fed the animals, and arranged with the Derbyshire Emergency Planners to provide food …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team along with Edale and Derby Teams responded to a call by police to assist locating and recovering stranded motorists in heavy snow.

Vehicles were trapped for some time on the A515 Buxton – Ashbourne road. The checks were conducted in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The teams approached the area from 3 different locations, checking vehicles, drivers and occupants enroute. Most of the vehicles were HGVs, and their drivers opted to stay with them.

Buxton Mountain Rescue was called to Cressbrook Dale, near Litton, to assist the ambulance services with an injured walker.

The casualty, a 74 year old man from Northenden, Manchester, had fallen from the height of Peter’s Stone, a local landmark, and rolled 15 metres onto a rough scree slope above the valley floor. He sustained head injuries along with body lacerations and grazes.

[caption id="attachment_8659" align="alignleft" width="360"] Lowering the stretcher in Cressbrook Dale[/caption]

Paramedics from the East Midlands Ambulance Service, and the Derbyshire Air Ambulance, treated him on site.

The Rescue …

Buxton Mountain Rescue was called to Cressbrook Dale, near Litton, to assist the ambulance services with an injured walker.
The casualty, a 74 year old man from Northenden, Manchester, had fallen from the height of Peter’s Stone, a local landmark, and rolled 15 metres onto a rough scree slope above the valley floor. He sustained head injuries along with body lacerations and grazes.
[caption id="attachment_8659" align="alignleft" width="360"] Lowering the stretcher in Cressbrook Dale[/caption]
Paramedics from the East Midlands Ambulance Service, and the Derbyshire Air Ambulance, treated him on site.
The Rescue …

A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to the Chapel Gate track off Rushop Edge on Wednesday afternoon to assist the ambulance service with an injured hill walker.

Two walkers, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, a male and female in their 70s requested assistance with an ankle injury. Their reported location was the Chapel Gate Track on the Edale side. However, they were not located at the point given, and a local search was organised during which they were found on the Dalehead footpath above Whitemoor Clough.

A shelter tent was quickly opened for the female casualty to provide protection from the …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team responded to a call for assistance from two lost walkers.

The walkers, in their sixties from the Greater Manchester area, were walking the southern edges of Kinder Scout in thick mist, when they became separated. The weather conditions at the time was of extremely poor visibility, icy underfoot, with an increasing windchill.

The information received indicated they separated in the Pym Chair area. Fortunately they located one another quite quickly and continued along the southern edge. Team members were deployed into the area and the walkers were met by a Buxton section as they descended the Pennine …

A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to a walking incident near Bretton CLough.

The casualty, a lady walking with a group, had slipped on a muddy path and sustained a lower leg/ankle injury. The injury was treated on site by the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA) paramedic crew and team members. She was then placed into a vacuum mattress and stretcher for evacuation by team members across very slippery terrain to the road head.

A land ambulance transferred her to hospital for further treatment.