A walker was reported overdue by his family after he failed to return home several hours after he was expected. He had told his family he was planning a walk around Kinder Scout starting at Jacob’s Ladder, but his phone was now going straight to voicemail. We decided to deploy with a view to searching the usual locations where we tend to find missing walkers.
Just as the first party was deploying from our base, phone contact was made with the man who was reported safe and well. A well intentioned call for an overdue walker who was suffering from the lack of mobile coverage on the top of Kinder.
- Time: 21:30
- Type: Mountain Incident
- Location: Kinder Scout
- Team members: 11
- Duration: 1 hour
- Volunteer hours: 11
- Total volunteer hours for the year: 1,136.5
Alan Howarth, Deputy Team Leader
