The team was called at 8pm on Saturday night to assist three walkers in difficulty on the Kinder plateau.  They had been following an “AllTrails” route which took them across the top of the plateau between the Downfall and Crowden Clough.  The route description said it was moderately difficult, but didn’t mention that there isn’t a path between these points and given that it has been raining heavily for weeks, large parts of this area consists of boggy peat.  The temperature was cold and there was snow lying on the ground.  The group had become disorientated and were now cold, wet and lost in the dark.  Every route they attempted placed them in knee deep mud, so they called for our help.

Using PhoneFind technology we were able establish their location and quickly despatched two parties to find and assess the walkers.  All three were very cold and struggling to walk.  After we warmed them up in a casualty tent, we were able to carefully walk them back to our vehicles at Edale Cross.  Once back at our base we provided them with hot drinks before driving them back to their vehicles in Edale at 2:30am.

Kinder Mountain Rescue Team is staffed by volunteers who give their time free of charge and funded entirely by public donations.

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• Time: 20:00
• Type: Mountain Incident
• Location: Crowden Head, Kinder Scout
• Team members: 23
• Volunteer hours: 126.5
• Total volunteer hours for the year: 802

Alan Howarth, Deputy Team Leader