The thirteenth annual High Peak Emergency Services Display Day is being held on Sunday 13th June, opening at 10.00 and running through until 4.15 at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton.

Come and meet your emergency services, both paid and volunteers and see them in action.

There are displays throughout the day including the fire, police and ambulance dealing with a road traffic collision.  Buxton Mountain Rescue Team carrying out rope evacuations from a scaffold tower, you can experience Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisations simulated cave.

Marvel at the Search and Rescue Dogs locating lost …

Students at Aldercar Community Language College at Langley Mill have raised an amazing £518 for the rescue team. 

Deputy Team Leader, Malc Needham, is a Learning Manager and post-16 tutor in Construction at the college.   As part of the new National Curriculum students have to be aware of new initiatives one of which is “Community Cohesion”, or community spirit as most would know it.   The students, knowing that Malc was a member of the totally voluntary rescue team, quickly identified the Buxton Team as a worthy community cause and decided to help as much as they …

The first ever national Mountain Rescue Day is planned for Bank Holiday Monday, 3rd May. It aims to raise the awareness of the public to the often forgotten fourth emergency service. 

Staffed entirely by volunteers and totally dependent on charitable contributions, mountain rescue doesn’t always spring to mind when people think of emergencies. Throughout the country all teams affiliated to Mountain Rescue, England & Wales will be holding various events and open days to promote its service in the public eye. 

On Bank Holiday Monday, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, will be highly visible in …

In a competition run by Santander to promote its company re-branding from the old Abbey National, customers at Spring Gardens, in Buxton were asked to cast a vote for which of three charities should benefit from the Santander Community Chest.

THANK YOU – people of Buxton, for voting mountain rescue!  The team benefits from that competition AND receives a bonus prize that staff of the branch have been able to offer.  Instead of the previous £200 chest value, the team receives £400 in vouchers – to be redeemed at a number of high street shops.  …

On Thursday 6th May, two Reliant Robins will leave Chinley to drive the 510 miles to John O’Groats, the most northern tip of Scotland.  Not known for their GT style comfort or their long distance performance, the trip could be one to remember for the four men who will crew the cars all the way there and all the way back.  However in the process they will raise several thousand pounds in support of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air-ambulance, making the event particularly special for the …

On Thursday 6th May, two Reliant Robins will leave Chinley to drive the 510 miles to John O’Groats, the most northern tip of Scotland.  Not known for their GT style comfort or their long distance performance, the trip could be one to remember for the four men who will crew the cars all the way there and all the way back.  However in the process they will raise several thousand pounds in support of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air-ambulance, making the event particularly special for the …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team Member, Rob Wymer, has recently returned from France where he qualified as a Full UIMLA International Mountain Leader.

The Union of International Mountain Leader Associations, (UIMLA) was created in 2004 to encourage the development of common standards for professional mountain leaders throughout Europe and worldwide.  It was drawn up in recognition of the growing requirement for leaders to work in areas where the full alpine climbing skills of a High Mountain Guide are not needed but where skilled mountain leadership is necessary for clients to enjoy journeys through remote …

The novelty of winter conditions is beginning to wear off now and most of us are looking forward to Spring.  But, just when we think winter is slipping by, the Peak District is hit by another spell of bad weather.  

A spate of rescue incidents in the Peak District during the last few weeks has highlighted the need for continued vigilance of the prevailing weather conditions, and the need for good preparation for a day’s walk on the moors.  In fact, the conditions on the hilltops in some areas are becoming worse even …

Against The Wall…..     Friday 12th March
The man who “makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton*” is giving his spectacular “Against The Wall” lecture at Macclesfield Rugby Club on Friday 12th March and all in aid of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team!

The US magazine Climbing once described Andy as a climber with a “strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, with a reputation “for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the …

Not content with raising £500 for the team by walking the Coast to Coast in July last year, young James Martin is pushing Mum and brother Josh towards another long distance walk.

This time a mere 85 miles along the Dales Way from Ilkley in in the Yorkshire Dales National Park to Windermere in the Lake District.   The 4 1/2 day treck is planned for August and will be James’s fourth long distance walk. 

But perhaps an even greater ambition is James’s determination to complete all the 214 Wainwrights before his …