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.
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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
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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 – 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
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
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.
- 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
- Type – Search for missing person
- Location – Crowden / Woodhead Reservoir
- Time – 0815
- Team members – Kinder MRT 11
- Man Hours – 88
Along with Glossop, Oldham, Woodhead and SARDA, we met at Crowden car park to look for a person who had been missing since late January. The police had been able to narrow down a last known location to an area around here so we spent the day searching the banks of Woodhead Reservoir and the hillsides and woods in this location. Despite our best efforts we were unable to help them locate the missing person.
Neale Pinkerton
Deputy Leader Kinder MRT
- Type- Hill walker, Injured
- Location- Crowden Brook, Kinder Scout.
- Time – 21:14
- Team members – 21
- Duration- KMRT (15mins)
- Man hours – 5
An initial search by helicopter for a woman with an ankle injury failed to locate her and due to the time of day and weather (cold), Edale & Buxton mountain rescue teams requested the assistance of Kinder & Glossop MRT’s. The casualty was located before Kinder & Glossop were deployed and the woman was treated/evacuated by Edale & Buxton MRT’s.
Darren Wallis – Team Leader
- Type – Hill walker, medical condition
- Location- Hern Clough, Bleaklow
- Time - 17:41
- Team members – 19 (MKRT)
- Duration – 1hr 20mins (KMRT)
- Man Hours – 25hrs 20mins (KMRT)
Kinder & Edale mountain rescue teams were asked to assist Glossop to carry a casualty back to Snake Summit through deep snow – More on this in diary of a team member (video).
Darren Wallis – Team Leader
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