Incident report

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called at breakfast time on Friday 25th August to join on ongoing search for a 64 year old man from Kent.
Gary Sims was reported missing to Thames Valley Police by his family.  He was travelling back to Kent from Manchester and was known to have left a hotel in Salford on Monday, August 21st.  His car was found on the A57, Snake Pass road on Wednesday, August 23rd.
Mountain rescue teams from Glossop, Edale and Woodhead started searching on Thursday afternoon and were accompanied by several search dogs and a Coastguard helicopter.  The search was wound down after darkness but was renewed again on Friday morning when Buxton MRT replaced Edale team in the hunt.
With no clue as to which direction Mr Sims may have traveled the search had to take in wide areas of moorland, cloughs and pasture together with long stretches of rivers and streams.

 
At 3.30 pm the body of a man was located by members of Glossop MRT.   Derbyshire police later stated on Facebook that formal identification had not yet to taken place but they confirmed that it was believed to be Mr Sims.  The police went on to thank everyone for sharing their appeal to find the gentleman.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and all the volunteers of the P.D.M.R.O. send their heartfelt condolences to Mr Sims’s family.
 
Missing person photo from Derbyshire Constabulary web site.
Searching cloughs off the Snake Pass : Credited to BMRT.