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KINDER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM

Saving lives in wild and remote places since 1971

To request Mountain Rescue: Dial 999, ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue

KINDER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM

 

Saving lives in wild and remote places since 1971

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Kinder Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) has been in existence since 1971, and is one of seven mountain rescue teams that operate within the Peak District National Park, as part of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO).

Our 50 members operate on an purely voluntary basis and are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist members of the public on the hill or in urban search and rescue situations.

We are almost exclusively funded by public donations, and all proceeds from fund raising go towards equipment and resources used on our call outs.

9: CALLOUT – Sunday 28TH JANUARY 2024

Not long after packing away the equipment from the previous callout we received a call for assistance from Glossop MRT.  They were dealing with a casualty who had fallen in to Torside Clough and sustained serious injuries.  A Coastguard helicopter had arrived at site but was unable to winch the casualty out due to the conditions on the day.  This meant that the casualty would need to be moved using a combination of a rope rescue system and passing the stretcher hand over hand, clearly needing a significant number of people to complete the task.  Given the time critical nature of the casualty’s injuries, it was decided that the quickest method of getting enough people to site to complete the task would be for the helicopter to fly to Hayfield and collect additional Kinder team members.  After two trips to Hayfield and back we had provided an additional 16 team members with a further 5 driving round in three of our vehicles.

The casualty was carefully moved back up Torside Clough to the waiting helicopter and then flown directly to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield along with our team doctor and paramedic. 

Both teams worked well together to achieve a successful outcome for the casualty.  It had been a long night starting with our first callout at 4:45pm and finishing at 1:30am the next morning for most team members.  However our Deputy Team Leader then drove over to Sheffield to collect the doctor and paramedic, with the three of them returning to Hayfield at 4am.

The team would particularly like to thank Hayfield Football club for allowing us to use their pitch as a landing site for the helicopter.  Without the use of this we would have needed to make multiple trips in our vehicles over to Glossop and up a long slow 4×4 track.  It would have added hours on to our response and may have been the difference in saving this casualty.

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  • Time: 21:00
  • Type: Mountain Incident – Glossop MRT assist
  • Location: Torside Clough
  • Team members: 25
  • Volunteer hours: 112.5
  • Total volunteer hours for the year: 595.5

Alan Howarth, Deputy Team Leader

Stretcher Hand over hand
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