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 varying degrees of hypothermia, after initial assessments it was established two of the party were going to require stretcher evacuation, Kinder 2 and 3 were already on the way to scene and Kinder 4,5 and 6 were also deployed to assist. With the casualties condition, darkness, the dropping temperature and the risk of the casualties condition worsening we requested assistance from HMCG Rescue 912 to speed up the evacuation process .

Once Rescue 912 arrived on scene the weather had changed significantly with visibility vastly reduced from when we asked for their assistance, they were unable to land near the casualty location due to fog and had to land lower down the hill close to the Edale cross track.

Two of the casualty party were package into our rescue stretchers and the remaining two supported by team members for the walk to the helicopter for evacuation, unfortunately Rescue 912 was unable remain on scene due to fuel restraints and had to depart. The evacuation strategy was then focused on utilising our team land rovers to transport the casualties to Hayfield were they were assessed by an East Midlands Ambulance Service crew.

The team were stood down at 02:50 on Thursday morning.

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

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– Time: 20:05

– Type: Mountain Incident

– Location: Kinder Scout

– Team members: 28

– Duration: 6.45 hours

– Volunteer hours on this incident: 189 hours

– Total callout hours in 2025: 1689 hours