As the previous callout on Shutlingsloe, above Macclesfield Forest was closing, the team received a call to assist the North West Ambulance Service in the area of Three Shires Head.

Whilst deploying to Three Shires Head, a further call came in to assist Edale Mountain Rescue Team, with an incident at Hollins Cross in the Hope Valley (details to follow). For a short time, we had three live call outs on the go, which temporarily required some quick decision making and stretched our resources.

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Whilst the Team was dealing with the incidents in the Macclesfield area, we received a call to assist Edale Mountain Rescue Team with a call out above Castleton. At the time, EMRT were also dealing with another incident.

Between the two MRT’s and working with the East Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics, the injured person was located on the path leading up to Hollins Cross.

Pain relief was provided and the injured walker was placed on the stretcher for an evacuation down the path to the waiting ambulance, for onward transport to hospital….

The second callout of the day casme in at just after midday as we were called to an an incident involving a walker who had slipped and taken a tumble on the steps coming down from the ‘Cheshire Matterhorn’, more correctly called Shutlingsloe.

The original rendezvous point was to the east of the hill, which is where the first cohort of team members arrived. This resulted in a pincer movement with team members eventually arriving on paths from the north and east.

We are very grateful to the …

At a time when most people are soundly asleep, the team was woken up by a request from Derbyshire Constabulary to assist with a search for two missing people on Kinder Scout.

The information the missing people had provided was vague, and their actual location difficult to determine. In such circumstances, the “Kinder Search Plan” was initiated. The Kinder Search Plan essentially splits Kinder into four areas, and each of the relevant teams search their allotted area. As ourselves, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team, Edale Mountain Rescue Team and Glossop …

Less than 24 hours after the resumption of our first face to face training session for many months, which happened to be at HenCloud, the previous night, the team received a call from our colleagues at the West Midlands Ambulance Service, and a request to return to Hen Cloud.

Having just refreshed ourselves in the use of rope systems and crag rescue we turned out to help with the evacuation of a casualty close to the top of Hen Cloud. The paramedics were already on scene providing the initial medical care; our role …