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 were requested to attend an urgent incident in Alderley Edge to help an ambulance crew with a patient who had been observed taking a significant fall from a cliff face. The call came to us as the ambulance crew had just been despatched. We began mobilising to deploy our vehicles and rope rescue...
In a remarkably similar request to the previous incident the team was asked to assist a group of 3 walkers in the Kinder Low area. However this rescue turned out to be significantly more straightforward. The three walkers had made a navigational error which led to the route taking far longer than expected. It had...
The team were called by Derbyshire police to provide assistance to a group of 4 walkers in the Kinder Low area, the group had been for a walk and become benighted with one suffering a recurrence of a previous leg injury. On arrival at the casualty location Kinder 1 found the party all suffering from...
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