On Saturday 5th February, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team led a ground-breaking drone demonstration with Evolve Dynamics , supported closely by the Drone Pathfinder Catalyst Programme Connected Places Catapult.

The demonstration’s objectives were to:

1) Demonstrate to the public, regulators and mountain rescue community the potentially life-saving applications of drones within a mountain rescue setting when the right equipment is used.

2) Highlight to regulators where existing regulation is holding us back and challenge them to find safe affordable solutions, to allow us to unlock the …

Its number 17 in an ongoing series of quizzes by our very own Quiz Mistress, Gillian Halliday. 

As many of you will know Gillian has been producing quizzes, the proceeds of which are sent to the Team, for many years. The Team is very grateful to Gillian and her ongoing support.

This time, there are 60 questions, and the theme is British place names which include the name of a bird species.

SAE plus £1 cash/cheque made payable to Mrs G. Halliday, to ‘Lorien’. Main Road. Stickney. …

Its not very often we write or post about one of our own on any social media platform, however we would like to celebrate the dedication to exploration of Nigel Vardy, the Buxton Mountain Rescue Team President.

Nigel has carved out a career in the mountaineering world as an explorer, record breaker, author and motivational speaker. He has numerous and varied accolades to his name, and it was of no surprise to us that Bear Grylls has interviewed him for his BecomingX project or that Peak District National Park wanted to include him in …

Runners and walkers are signing up to take part in our ‘Go Anytime’ events as part of the Teams Fell ‘n’ Back race series.

The three courses showcase the areas in which we work as a rescue team, and all monies raised help fund our valuable work.

Remember you can run the courses as many times as you like, while they are live, to improve your times.

If you want to take part, please click on the entry link below and share to your own pages to …

Sainsbury’s Buxton and their customers have again been local heroes by completing their annual collection for Buxton Mountain Rescue Team.

The team were delighted to meet Erin Smallbone, the Customer and Trading Manager for the store earlier this morning who told us how generous you, the public, have been.

The team was delighted to be able to call into Sainsbury’s this morning to personally thank her and the staff for the kind, and much needed donations. Without contributions like these, we would not be able to continue the …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team would like to thank the generosity of Helen Homer who has dedicated to sell her late husband Jay’s photographs to support the rescue team.

Very sadly, Jay was found by the team on the 16th July 2020 having had a fatal fall whilst out taking photographs on the moorlands just above Buxton.

A year on, Helen would like to showcase her husband’s talents with an amazing selection of his photos for sale. A team spokesman said that we are extremely grateful to Helen for this decision to …

One of our team members recently had a conversation with a member of staff at the Hollowford Centre in Castleton. The discussion was over the new all-terrain wheelchair purchased by the centre and the Lindley Educational Trust to allow access to the countryside for those with limited mobility.

It just so happened the team member’s neighbour had been injured some time ago in a serious accident involving a paraglider and was no longer able to get out and about into the countryside he had spent so many years enjoying.

Working …

Sunday was a little bit different to the team’s normal weekend activities. We had a great time being media stars for the afternoon as we presented our first live media streaming event, with our “Buxton Mountain Rescue Team Live”.

The BMRT live event exceeded all of our expectations and was a credit to all the team’s volunteers and the production team from Sound Credit TV, who were supported by Crows Nest Films, were fantastic, we couldn’t have done it without them. Even our very own Bernard the dog, the team’s mascot made a rare …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team send our condolences to The Queen and the Royal family.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team held its Annual General Meeting recently. To ensure the charity was able to safely hold the AGM, it was held, as is usual nowadays, online.

In a first for our Team, online voting was organised in a confidential manner, and a huge extra thank you to the team members who made that part of the AGM possible, in addition to the extra work required by the Team Secretary to organise the AGM. Don’t forget, these and many other team members and Trustees help to organise the running of …