Kinder Mountain Rescue Team

Type – missing walker

Location – Kinder Plateau

Time – 23.15

Team Members – 15 Kinder MRT, Edale and Buxton MRT

Duration – 5 Hours

3 teams were called out to look for a walker who was taking part in the Bullock Smithy Challenge, a 24 hour long distance walk covering 56 miles. He had failed to make a checkpoint in Edale so we were called out to cover the possible routes from the checkpoint at Edale Cross onwards. Just as we were standing down and preparing to start again later that morning in daylight, news came through from Edale that he had been found safe and well.

Neale Pinkerton

Deputy Team Leader

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

• Type – Assist ambulance service.
• Location – ’White Nancy’, Bollington
• Time – 16.00 hrs (approx)
• Team members – 20
• Duration – 1.5 hours
• Man hours – 30 hrs

After completing our training exercise, members were on their way home when the call came through to RV at a known location in Bollington. The team rapidly redeployed to assist the ambulance service at a local tourist location – ‘White Nancy’, Bollington.

An elderly gentleman had fallen and sustained injuries to both legs. One leg had a suspected fracture of the mid shaft femur, the other cuts and grazes. The casualty was immobilised and evacuated by mountain rescue stretcher to a waiting ambulance.

Phil Ridley – Team Training Officer

• Type – Assist ambulance service.
• Location – Bing Wood, Whaley Bridge
• Time – 00:17
• Team members – 12
• Duration – 1 hour
• Man hours – 12

In the early hours of Sunday morning (only just gone midnight Saturday) we were called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service with the evacuation of a teenage lad who had sustained an ankle injury in steep woodland. The casualty was taken by mountain rescue stretcher to a waiting ambulance

• Type – Distress flares reported by member of public
• Location – Kinder Scout area
• Time – 22:16
• Team members – 1 + Peak District duty controller
• Duration – 20 mins

The duty controller received a call to say that a member of the public had seen red distress flares in the Kinder Scout area. The police had no reports of missing persons and further inquires from the witness indicated that it was almost certainly a firework due to the quantity and style of the “flares” sighted.

Chinese lanterns and fireworks can often be mistaken for distress flares, but we would always prefer somebody to report a potential sighting and let us look into it. Please remember – if you are using fireworks in the hills or at the coast, avoid red ones and inform the Police or Coast Guard about the display.

Darren Wallis – Team Leader.

• Type – Hillwalker, injured
• Location – Nr laddow Rocks, Laddow Moss
• Time – 12:oohrs (approx)
• Team members – 4 (KMRT), assisting Oldham MRT (OMRT)
• Duration – 2hrs (approx)

Four Kinder Team members on a crag/rope training seminar assisted Oldham Mountain Rescue Team with the stretcher evacuation of a teenager, who had sustained an ankle injury.

Darren Wallis – Team Leader

• Type – Hillwalkers, lost
• Location – Saddleworth Moor
• Time – 22:00hrs (approx)
• Team members – 6

Six members of Kinder MRT, attending a crag/rope seminar were put on standby to assist Oldham & Woodhead MRT’s in a search for a group of missing walkers. The group were located before we were deployed. – Darren Wallis, Team Leader

Darren Wallis – Team Leader