With just a few days to go before the clocks go back (2.00 a.m. Sunday 29th October) Buxton Mountain Rescue Team wants to remind walkers to take special care. Every year the sudden shortening of daylight hours catches folk out and leaves them struggling to find their way off the hill in the dark, often resulting in a call-out for the local rescue teams.
The hills of the Peak District are wonderful places to be and getting out into …
On Sunday Buxton Mountain Rescue Team welcomed members of both Staffordshire and Cheshire Lowland Rescue Teams for a training session which was primarily aimed at developing leadership skills but it also provided a great opportunity to share ideas.
The aims of Mountain Rescue and Lowland Rescue are the same but because of the nature of the terrain there are some obvious variations in operational techniques. Whilst the mountain rescue teams are kept busy with accidents at known locations, the lowland teams are more frequently involved in assisting the police in searching for missing …
On Thursday 12th October Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams was proud to welcome Mike France, Chairman of Mountain Rescue England & Wales, and David Coleman, President of The Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation, to the team’s base at Dove Holes to present Long Service Certificates to five team members.
First to receive a certificate was Andy Ashton for completing 22 years service before retiring earlier this year. Next up were two members, Mark Williams and Adrian Walker, who had each fulfilled 25 years service and finally Dave Hannan and Roger Bennett who were …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team welcomed Hassan Pillai from Macclesfield to its Dove Holes base on Thursday evening to say thank you for raising over £3,000 for team funds.
Team Chairman, Richard Doran, presented Hassan with a framed Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his hard work and determination in completing a 650 mile cycle ride from Mizen Head, the tip of Southern Ireland, to Malin Head at the top of Northern Ireland. Following the presentation Hassan went on to relate the some of the stories …
Bernard has been the team’s mascot for several years and we thought we had him trained. Unfortunately he slipped his lead at the last Chatsworth Country Fair and went a bit barking.
It’s a dog’s life but someone’s got to raise the money. Take a look at >>>>>>>>>>>
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chatswoof?src=hash
Thanks to everyone who supported us at the show, the team raised a grand total of over £6,ooo. FANTASTIC!
Hassan Pillai set himself to raise £2,500 for Buxton Mountain Rescue Team. The Challenge was to cycle the 600 mile route from Mizen Head to Malin Head in Ireland.
He’s been there, done that, beat the target. What next? Hassan wrote to Buxton MRT;
“Dear friends and supporters of BMRT,
I missed out on sending you updates as I progressed through Ireland, you may not be a friend on Facebook, so you get this now that I …
Film footage of the real rescue of an injured walker from Pym’s Chair on Kinder Scout. Watch Buxton and Kinder Rescue Teams, together with a little help from an Edale team member, working together to bring the casualty down the hillside and handover to the waiting ambulance crew. See incident number 62 (1st Sept 2017)
GO to https://vimeo.com/232145978
It’s not every day that the friend of the casualty happens to be a film maker with a drone in his rucksack!
Credit for the video goes to: Graham Colling
The weekend is Buxton Mountain Rescue Team’s best fund raising event of the year and we’d love you to come and join us at Chatsworth Park. So far the weather has been kind and the crowds are packing in to see the hundreds of displays and sales tents.
You’ll find the B.M.R.T. display stand on row “A”. Come on down, Bernard the mascot needs a chin scratch!!
Hassan Pillai is attempting to raise £2,500 for the rescue team with a sponsored cycle ride of the 600 mile, full length of Ireland. (see news item 31/07.)
Hassan was interviewed live on Radio Derby on Saturday and explained to listeners why he was attempting the challenge and how they could support him.
To hear the interview go to, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0588gck The item is 11 minutes into the programme and last about six minutes.
Thanks to Hassan, keep up the publicity.
A one day Street Collection in Macclesfield netted the team a magnificent £400.
Last Saturday (5th Aug) was a rare bright summer’s day and members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team took advantage of the weather on the shopping streets of Macclesfield. A pre-planned and licenced street collection was held which raised a really amazing sum of just a few pence over £400. That’s a really good result for the team and will enable the volunteers members to continue their work in helping those in distress in our local outdoor …