On Saturday 10th June we welcomed the Our Blue Light relay to Derbyshire. The Blue Light Torch is making its way around the north of England helping to raise the issue of mental health and well-being throughout the statutory and voluntary blue light services.
We were called to assist a walker with a reported knee injury. Their position was confirmed via SARLOC to be just off Kinder Low.
We were called to provide water search resources to assist Edale MRT in a search they had going on in Sheffield. 2 of our Swift Water Technicians (SRT’s) complete with raft and other kit drove over to assist in the search. The misper was located by police and the teams stood down.
Neale Pinkerton
Team Leader
We were called to assist a walker with a reported dislocated knee. His position was initially reported as under Kinder Downfall. However, following a very broken telephone conversation, it became apparent that that as not correct and that they were intact somewhere off the southern edge in one of the cloughs.
• Type – Heat exhaustion
• Location – Baslow Boot Bash – Baslow
• Team members – 10 Kinder MRT
• Duration – 10 hours or 100 volunteer man hours
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We were called out in response to a concerned walker who had seen a mountain biker in distress on the Pennine Bridleway between Hayfield and Rushup Edge. We searched the bridleway and the escape routes but found nothing.
False alarm with good intent.
Dave Eustace
Deputy Team Leader
During our monthly Wednesday training session, we got a request to assist BMRT with a fallen climber at Windgather Rocks. We quickly despatched 2 vehicles to the location but were stood down as they got there as the casualty had been dealt with.
Neale Pinkerton
Team Leader
On Saturday 10th June we welcomed the Our Blue Light relay to Derbyshire. The Blue Light Torch is making its way around the north of England helping to raise the issue of mental health and well-being throughout the statutory and voluntary blue light services.
Kinder Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT), is one of seven mountain rescue teams that operate within the Peak District National Park, as part of the Peak Disctrict Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO)
Our 50 members operate on an purely voluntary basis and are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist members of the public on the hill or in urban search and rescue situations.
We are almost exclusively funded by public donations, and all proceeds from fund raising go towards equipment and resources used on our call outs.
Current weather conditions on Kinder, courtesy of http://www.kinderweather.co.uk/
