KINDER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
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.
The team received a call to assist the air ambulance with a casualty in Happy Valley, Bramhall. The casualty had slipped and badly injured her ankle. She was still some distance from the road, so our help was requested to carry her to a land ambulance. We responded with two vehicles and team members to...
We were called by the PDMRO duty controller to a couple in the Kinder Low area who had been out for a walk, one had fallen after her foot went down a hole and she was unable to continue. Due to limited phone signal we were unable to get a initial phone find location or...
In what turned out to be an epic seven hour rescue, a group of three walkers and a dog had been following the route of the old Pennine way across the middle of the plateau between Kinder Downfall and Crowden clough. Just as they reached the half way point, right in the middle of the...
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