As the team was packing away the equipment used for the previous call out to Mam Tor, a request was received from North West Ambulance Service to assist with an injured mountain biker in Macclesfield Forest.

The team quickly diverted to Macclesfield Forest where they were informed by the Ranger exactly where the casualty was. The ambulance personnel were already on scene and had prepared the injured male teenager for a stretcher carry off, by administering pain relief and immobilising the injury. The mountain biker had come off his mountain bike, hit an adjacent wall and sustained a lower leg injury. …

The team was requested to attend a joint snatch rescue, along with Edale Mountain Rescue Team. The incident involved two people who had become crag-fast on the face of Mam Tor. Both teams worked together to build a rope system to rescue the casualties, and get them back to safer ground.

image of Mam Tor face courtesy of EMRT

The team was requested, along with Kinder Mountain Rescue Team, to assist Cheshire Search and Rescue in an ongoing search for a missing person in the Macclesfield area.

The teams were briefed at the rv point and given areas of the adjacent countryside to search. In a controlled and systematic way, each section set about searching their own areas. The areas were very difficult to search, on occasions team members were just a few metres apart from each other in order that nothing was missed.

The weather was not good with intense rain for most of the time whilst the teams …

The team was called along with Edale Mountain Rescue Team to assist a walker who had fainted and sustained a lower leg injury. As is common practice, especially mid week,  both teams were called out to ensure as much help could be provided as quickly as possible.

The walker had fallen whilst on the Great Ridge above Losehill Farm.   East Midlands Ambulance Service was on scene and was able to escort the casualty to the awaiting land ambulance, enabling both teams to be quickly quickly stood down.

The team was called as along with  Glossop Mountain Rescue, Kinder Mountain Rescue and  Edale Mountain Rescue after receiving a report that a fell runner, who was training for a long distance race had suffered an injury and was somewhere on the Kinder Scout plateau. The Kinder search plan was initiated and the 4 teams began the organised and co-ordinated search approach required in such circumstances.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team rv’d at Edale and quickly deployed three sections to start searching various routes onto Kinder. As section 3 was commencing their route they met the runner who had managed …