Kinder Mountain Rescue Team provides search and mountain rescue services in the English Peak District, Derbyshire.

We are based in Hayfield in the High Peak and our area includes Kinder Scout and west towards Stockport and Manchester. We provide a 365 days a year, 24/7 search and mountain rescue service to walkers and climbers in the Dark Peak, as well as assisting the police with lowland search and rescue of vulnerable persons.

How to donate to KMRT

You can help the team by donating online through justgiving by going to KMRT's Justgiving page or send a cheque payable to 'Kinder Mountain Rescue Team' to: Peter Chambers, KMRT Treasurer,13 Hayfield Road, Chapel-en-le Frith, High Peak, SK23 0JF. For more infomation, visit our fundraising page. Or find out more about becoming a supporter

and a big thank you goes to…

...alll the people, businesses and groups who have provided materials, goods, tools and support to help with the new hut.

Steve and Jill at the George in Hayfield
Marstons Brewery for the premises
Arco have provided safety equipment
Howdens Joinery, Stockport for the kitchen
Dilworth & Morris, New Mills have provided goggles and masks
Dulux for providing paint for the new base
Ryans DIY Center in New Mills for key cutting services

Shop KMRT

If you make purchases from retailers such as Play or Amazon please consider using Buy at KMRT when shopping online as all purchases generate a donation for Kinder Mountain Rescue Team.
Purchase CDs, DVDs, books, insurance and much more. Also available are flights, short breaks, presents, toys and gifts.
KMRT receives a donation every time you make a purchase here .

TEAM MEMBERS CALENDAR FOR 2011 NOW ONLINE

The full 2011 calendar is now available via the calendar function in the Team Members area.

This includes all known training, social, fund raising, equipment/hut bookings and meetings.

PLEASE CROSS-CHECK THE DATES AND TAKE NOTE OF ANY EVENTS YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR!

Notify any changes back to Paul Mann please.

August 31st, 2010

46. CALLOUT – 16 August 2010

Whilst attending a search in the Goyt Valley, a youth approached the control vehicle to advise me that his friend was lying injured in the water at Erwood Reservoir  after “bombing” or jumping off the cliff into the water.  Apparently he had failed to notice that the water level was down by around 10 metres due to the dry conditions.

On reaching the casualty,  a 22 year old male, it was clear that he was suffering from a severe ankle injury and in a lot of pain. After being treated at the spot with Entonox and Morphine, he was splinted and placed onto a stretcher and evacuated across the reservoir by a police water search team boat to a waiting ambulance at the Sailing club.

On subsequent inspection it was found that the casualty had jumped approx 18 metres on the expectation of landing in the water. This incident must be proof that the old saying “Look before you leap” still holds true!

Howard Taylor, Deputy Team Leader

August 16th, 2010

45. Callout 16th Aug 2010

Type – Missing Person
Location – Goyt Valley
Time – 01:37
Team members – 18 (KMRT) – 6 teams plus search dogs involved in total.
Duration – 19hrs
Man Hours – too many to calculate! (team members going to work and returning etc)
Six mountain rescue teams work from twenty to two in the morning until shortly before nightfall in a search for a vulnerable missing person, who was located alive about half an hour before it went dark again, by members of Woodhead and Kinder team. The teams were assisted by both the police helicopter and their water search team.
Teams involved – Kinder MRT, Buxton MRT, Derby MRT, Glossop MRT, Woodhead MRT, SARDA & Calder Valley MRT
Darren Wallis – Team Leader
August 16th, 2010

44. Callout 11th Aug 2010

Type – Missing Person
Location – Woodbank Park, Stockport
Time 02:39
Team Members – 16, KMRT (45 total)
Duration – 5hrs (KMRT) approx 12hrs total
Man Hours – 80hrs (KMRT)
Having been in bed for less than two hours I was awoken by the duty controller to see if the team would search for a vulnerable male, missing in the Stockport area. As numbers are always down during the peak holiday periods I immediately called Oldham team to assist us. We searched until daylight and then requested that Bolton team take over. The missing man was located later that day by the police.
Teams involved – Kinder MRT, Oldham MRT, SARDA & Bolton MRT
Darren Wallis – Team Leader
August 11th, 2010

Cracken Edge Fell Race 2010 – photographs

Over 200 runners started this year’s race on a beautiful summer’s evening. For race results please visit Hayfield Fell Races. Many thanks to everyone who took part or marshalled and supported – this race raises much needed funds for the team. 


August 4th, 2010

KMRT’s Training Officer Diary: Search Exercise Sunday 25 July 2010

If you go into the woods today

Mist, drizzle and low cloud rolled over Windgather Rocks as I approached the remote RV (rendez-vous point) for today’s exercise. Not quite the weather I had ordered (thick fog, torrential rain) but it would be sufficient to set the mood for the day.

The scenario for today’s exercise was a straight forward MISPER (missing person) search. But as I’m not one for making it easy I threw in dense forest with lashings of steep hilly terrain for added interest.

As the team arrived and search parties formed, the exercise story unfolded. A local middle aged female suffering stress and depression with a history of drug and alcohol use had gone missing some 36 hrs earlier. Other teams had been out searching prior to Kinder’s deployment. The area Kinder had been tasked to search would prove tough going for the limited resources available, but hopefully we’d be successful. read more…

July 28th, 2010

43. Callout 7th July 2010

Type – Hillwalker with medical condition.
Location – Kinder Scout (East of Edale Rocks on Southern Edge Path)
Time – 14:26
Team Members –  13 (KMRT) + Glossop MRT
Duration – 2hrs 20mins
Man Hours – 30hrs 20mins (KMRT)
As the initial call from the duty controller indicated that an 80 year man was very unwell with a heart condition, this was clearly an urgent job. En-route to our base I was informed that an air ambulance had been tasked, but I could see from the cloud base that it may not reach the casualty – shortly after requesting that Glossop MRT back us up I was informed that the air ambulance had turned back due to the weather.
Once we arrived with the casualty, who was having trouble breathing, it was clear that an urgent evacuation was required and a second request was made for the air ambulance to meet us a close as it could fly to our location. By now we were joined by a paramedic from Glossop MRT who took over the casualty care and the helicopter found a break in the cloud, but we had to be quick and transfer the casualty to aircraft which was able to take off before the cloud closed in again.
Darren Wallis – Team Leader.
July 7th, 2010

Alan’s Diary – 4×4 Training Day 27.6.10

Driving through the smelly water

Driving through the smelly water

The drivers group were wheeled out again for our bi-annual 4×4 refresher training.  This was hosted by Corporate Pursuits, a professional off-road instruction company.  They taught us to drive up steep hills, down steep hills and through smelly water.  We managed to drag our vehicles through impassable terrain and were proudly upholding the reputation of the team’s off road driving ability, right up to the point where Vinny got his vehicle stuck in the smallest puddle on the site.  We were all so proud!

June 27th, 2010

4×4 Training – 27.6.10

June 27th, 2010

London, Melbourne… Stockport: Blackheart play benefit gig for KMRT 3 Sept 2010

Blackheart live on stageUrban Folk band Blackheart are taking a break from their 2010 tour to play a fundraiser for KMRT on 3 September 2010. Blackheart are Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington Their songwriting blends folk, country and even rock influences to create a unique style of beautifully crafted, instantly memorable songs that has been christened by the media ‘urban folk’.

Having built a reputation on outstanding live concerts and two albums , they are widely regarded as the fastest rising stars of the new folk generation. To find out more about Blackheart, visit their website www.blackheartmusic.co.uk or better yet come and see them on 3 September 2010 at the Great Moor Club in Stockport.

Tickets are £6 each and available from Great Moor Club, tel 01614832140 or Ken Blakeman. Tel  01614830215.

June 2nd, 2010
 
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