We were asked to assist a lady who had broken her lower leg whilst at the top of Crowden Brook, just inside our area of responsibility. This looked like a difficult operation for us: the top of Crowden Clough has very steep sides and so a rope rescue might have been needed. It is quite...

Just before our monthly casualty care training session we were called to assist a walker who was lost on Kinder Scout. He was finishing a long walk when he became disoriented in the middle of the plateau, around Crowden Head. We had a Sarcall phonefind location for him and understood from his initial message to...

An experienced wild camper had pitched up at Swine’s Back while completing a through hike.  He was settling down for the night when he had two very cold people turn up at his tent asking him for help.  They had been out on a first time wild camp and had badly underestimated the strength of...

The team were requested to attend an urgent incident in Alderley Edge to help an ambulance crew with a patient who had been observed taking a significant fall from a cliff face.  The call came to us as the ambulance crew had just been despatched.  We began mobilising to deploy our vehicles and rope rescue...

In a remarkably similar request to the previous incident the team was asked to assist a group of 3 walkers in the Kinder Low area.  However this rescue turned out to be significantly more straightforward.  The three walkers had made a navigational error which led to the route taking far longer than expected.  It had...