Kinder Mountain Rescue Team

The highly acclaimed Tideswell Male Voice Choir will Be performing a Charity Concert “Do You Hear The People Sing?” at St Matthew’s Church, Hayfield on Saturday 5^th May 7.30pm. The choir can be guaranteed to perform a wonderful mix of traditional and contemporary musical pieces which will appeal to all. Proceeds from this concert will be going to Kinder Mountain Rescue Team and Partners in Education Swaziland who will both be present on the evening.  read more…

Kinder Mountain Rescue Team received a cheque for £400 from the President of the Hayfield Country Show, Roy Hulme, the Vice President Bernard Taylor and the Chairman Paul Bagshaw.

Type – Medical emergency
Location – Monyash, Derbyshire
Team Members – 8
Duration – 1 hours (8 man hours)

The team had been attending the annual White Peak Walk, a 26 mile cross-country walk that starts/finishes in the White Peak village of Monyash.

Whilst certain members of the team were just getting to grips with the Pie & Peas provided by the organisers, a Gentleman was taken ill outside, collapsing in his chair.

Team members rapidly intervened, administering oxygen and closely monitoring, as it was indicated there was a medical history and this was a life threatening situation.

Paramedic Glynn, from Buxton, was rapidly on-scene after a 999 call was put in to EMAS, by which time the Gentleman’s condition was much improved (the power of O2!).  County ambulance arrived shortly after and the Gentleman was transferred to Hospital.

Information is that the Gentleman was discharged from hospital on Sunday and we wish him well and many congratulations for completing the full 26 mile walk on such a warm and humid day.

Paul Mann
Base Manager, KMRT

Sunday 19th June

Member of Parliament for High Peak, Andrew Bingham, joined members of Kinder Mountain Rescue Team today for one of their frequent training exercises, coupled with the Team also providing safety cover for today’s Kinder Trog Fell Race.

Andrew was assigned to join a hill party, transporting all the ‘heavy’ equipment up the long stretch from Coldwell Clough to Edale Cross. He was able to experience first-hand the work done by the team.

One of the main purposes of the day was a detailed communications exercise, following on from last Wednesdays formal session. Newer members were encouraged to take up the microphone and we had two probationary members, assisted by a full member, running the ‘link’ station from their blustery perch atop Mount Famine. Some 181 runners started the fell race, with very few retiring early and everyone being accounted for. Two runners were treated for minor injuries back at the Scout Hut in Hayfield by team member Mike Chetham.

A very successful day all round (including our ‘sheepish’ Team Leader getting a “Kinder Kiss” from one local hill resident, whose only comment afterwards was “Bahhhhhh”).

Paul Mann
Base Manager, KMRT

Alan Hinkes with members of KMRT at 636 (the highest point on Kinder Scout)

We’re delighted to announce that Alan Hinkes will be the guest speaker at our Ruby Ball which will be held on Saturday 24 September 2011. Tickets are £40 each and include a three course meal. Entertainment is provided by vocalist Laura Jayne Hunter and Le Funk. For more information click here

Cracken Edge Fell Race 4 August 2011 at 7:30 PM

Runners on cracken edge

This year’s Cracken Edge Fell Race takes place in August.  The course takes in 7 miles across Cracken Edge with tremendous views of Kinder. This fell race is run by Kinder Mountain Rescue Team. Entries are £4 and every penny goes to KMRT. read more…

On Sunday 1st May 2011, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team will officially reach it’s 40th Birthday.

Team records indicate this was the date that KMRT was created from the Sett Valley Mountain Rescue Team and the Goyt Search and Rescue Team. To find out more about the history of the team click here

In the best traditions of the team, a birthday pint was had by those at the  Team Meeting on Friday 29th April.

Howard Taylor, Deputy Team Leader

• Donate online at www.justgiving.com/LandroverAppeal
• Get your glad rags on for the KMRT Ruby Ball on Saturday 24 September 2011
• Buy a bottle (or a pint) of Rescuer’s Ruin, our mountain rescue beer brewed especially for us by Howard Town Brewery, Glossop
• Come and visit our base – we’re having an open day on Monday 2 May 12-5pm read more…

We need your help to continue to do so for another 40 years – please support our landrover appeal. Find out how here

The Kinder 40 Project

1971 was notable as the year in which a man played golf on the moon and the Kinder Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) came into being.

KMRT was created from the Sett Valley Mountain Rescue Team and the Goyt Search and Rescue Team. KMRT is believed to be the only mountain rescue team named after a mountain and not a valley and at times (usually during a missing person search somewhere around Kinder Low), particularly apt.

‘To understand the history of mountain rescue in the Peak District’ we should go back before the 1939 war. Walking and climbing in the Kinder area had been very restricted prior to the passing of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act in 1949 and the establishment of the Peak District National Park in 1950 and their making access read more…