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.
At 09:30 we were asked by Derbyshire Police to assist with a search for a woman missing from home in New Mills. We deployed team members on foot, a combined Kinder MRT and Glossop MRT water team, a search dog and an MRT Buxton drone. We searched the Sett Valley from Thornsett to Waterside at...
The duty controller called us at 7pm tasking us to a group of 8 people on the lower Slopes of Kinder in the area above Peter Nook Wood, the group had been out for a walk and become lost as night descended and the weather worsened. We tried utilising phone find technology to pin point...
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