Buxton Mountain Rescue Team assembled to search the edge path of Kinder for a party of walkers, lost at height in darkness and heavy rain. It was the teams fourth call out of the day. A dog unit from Edale also attended, having been involved in and still present from the previous call-out.

The benighted group, from Oxfordshire, consisted of 3 adults and a 12 year old. The rescue team was able to use an approximate grid reference to commence their search, worked out by converting lat/longitude data from a mobile phone belonging to the lost group. The group was located …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist walkers who had lost their bearings in early darkness, heavy rain, low cloud and wind along the southern edges of Kinder.

A search dog unit from Edale aso joined the search for two adults from the Derby area, and their pet dog. As all the rivers were in spate, a specialist water unit was deployed in addition to the usual search sections.

Search units located the benighted couple on the edge path at the top of the Golden Clough junction. As they were not injured, they were escorted safely off the hill down into Edale …

A second incident for the day for a joint Buxton Edale snatch squad, this time to a person on the Great Ridge at Hollins Cross.

Whilst sorting out equipment at base from an earlier incident, Buxton team received a request together with Edale MRT. However, within a few minutes, another incident had developed, and Buxton were diverted to focus on that instead.

A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to Edale around lunchtime for an injured walker on the Kinder plateau.

The casualty, a 20 year old male from Marple, had a suspected dislocation of the knee. He was treated on site by an Edale team doctor and then carried off the hill via Grindslow Knoll on a stretcher by team members.

The casualty was transferred to paramedics of a waiting land ambulance in Edale, and transported to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport for further treatment

Photo credit: Ed Dalton, BMRT

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to the Roaches at dusk following a call to assist an injured walker.  The team travelled to Roach End and carried out a speedy footpath search between there and Luds Church.

We soon located a 65 year old lady from Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. She had been walking in Gradbach Wood with her sons when she slipped and sustained a suspected fracture/dislocation of her ankle.  One of her sons alerted the staff at Gradbach Youth Hostel who then initiated the call for assistance. A local first responder and police officer arrived on scene just prior to the …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called at dusk to Castle Naze Rocks, between Dove Holes and Combs, following reports of a fallen climber. Further information indicated that there were in fact, two injured climbers, both suspended on a ledge some six metres above the ground.

The climbers were on a route called “Ziga Zaga”. It appears that the accident occurred when the lead climber reached the top of the route and fell off, landing on his belay partner.

Team personnel were quickly deployed to the location with a crag party abseiling down onto the ledge. It was established that both climbers were …

A joint Buxton and Edale Team responded to a call out at Edale, late Saturday afternoon, just as it was getting dark.

The casualty, a 47 year old male hill walker from West Bridgeford, Nottingham, was returning to Edale on the Pennine Way between Upper Booth and Edale when he slipped on the muddy surface and sustained a suspected fracture to his lower leg/ankle. He was treated on site by team personnel, given pain relief and his injured leg was splinted. He was then placed onto a mountain rescue stretcher and carried to Edale village.

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A joint call for Buxton and Edale Teams to Duper Lane, Abney on Thursday afternoon.

A lady was walking on Abney Moor with a group and stumbled, sustaining a suspected broken ankle. She was treated on site by rescue team members, who gave pain relief and splinted her injured leg. After placing her into a vacuum mattress which provided support and warmth, she was evacuated by rescuers on a mountain rescue stretcher to Abney village, where the land ambulance was waiting.

The casualty was then transferred to hospital for further treatment.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to an incident in Lathkill Dale, near to Alport on Saturday afternoon to assist the ambulance service.

The casualty, a 53 year old lady from Leicester, was walking with her husband when she slipped on wet muddy limestone by the River Lathkill. She was located at the bottom of very steep ground falling away into the river. A nasty bang to her side had resulted in a muscular injury to her hip.

Following treatment, she was loaded on to a mountain rescue stretcher and carried up the steep bank for nearly 300 metres to the …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to the Roaches following reports of a fallen climber.

Three friends from Leicestershire were spending a day climbing when this incident occurred on the crag behind Rockhall Cottage. One climber, a 25 year old male, fell about 6 metres when the protection above him failed. His next protection luckily held him and his climbing partner was able to lower him to the bottom of the crag.

An ambulance service paramedic, and a police officer were already on scene dealing with the fallen climber who was standing up when MRT arrived. The only visible signs of injury …