 |
 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
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… |
|
|||
|
| |||||
