Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and Edale M.R.T. were called to Castleton by East Midlands Ambulance Service on Bank Holiday Monday following a report of an injured hill-walker in Cave Dale.

Team members and ambulance paramedics located the twenty-five year old male from Canterbury in the upper parts of the dale.  The casualty with his friends had been walking locally before he started to scramble up some of the rocky limestone outcrops in the dale.  He slipped and fell between three and five metres sustaining a suspected fractured ankle.  He was treated on site with pain relief and the injured ankle was splintered.  The casualty was placed onto a mountain rescue stretcher and carried down to Castleton where an ambulance was waiting to transfer him to the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield for further treatment.