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

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.

Urban 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.

• 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

• Practising throwing lines

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• Practising throwing lines

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• Practising throwing lines

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• Practising throwing lines

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• Suited up and ready for the cold, cold, water

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• Kinder in the evening

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• Water rescue practice

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Last month Scott Szymczak, James Szymczak, Daniel Young, Jonathan Hakes, Sarah Ward, Matthew Williams and Hannah Little all friends from Sheffield raced all the way to Switzerland without paying for any transport, all in the name of charity.

With their impressive hitch-hiking skills, the three teams managed to raise over £400 for the Kinder Mountain Rescue team on completion of their continental task.

The group of students from South Yorkshire decided to have a top-gear style race from the Peace Gardens in Sheffield to the famous Zytglogge clock in the Swiss capital city. read more…

• 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

Alison in glorious sunshine after Great North Run

Alison in glorious snowstorm on a callout

As if being part of a mountain rescue team in possibly our busiest year ever wasn’t enough, KMRT’s Alison is taking part in the 2010 Asics Wilmslow Half Marathon on 28 March 2010 to raise money for the team.  She’ll be running over 13 miles (13.1 to be exact). You can sponsor Alison via www.justgiving.com/runningforrescue or to find out more about Alison’s story, click the read more link or if you are inspired by Alison’s example to get out there and fundraise yourself, check out our guide to setting up sponsorship.

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Campfour (the climbing, mountaineering and outdoor shop in Macclesfield) will donate the profits from a lecture by Andy Kirkpatrick to both Kinder and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams. It will be held on Friday 12 March at 7:30pm (doors 7pm) and tickets cost £10 with concessions at £6 so for a great night out with proceeds going to an extremely good cause (us!), get your tickets here.

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 Alps and beyond, sometimes with partners and sometimes alone. read more…

The Kinder Rescue Team Leader talks sheep rescues, Life on Mars and the busiest period in the team’s history. Read more here