At 22:45 the team were tasked by Derbyshire Police (DPOL) to a group of ten walkers, including a reported four children, they had set off from Barber Booth approxiamtely seven hours earlier and were now lost on Kinder. We had an idea of their location from information received from the police, however we were unable to contact them directly and we were unable to utilise the phone find technology.

Three hill parties were deployed on various routes to head towards the location provided by the police, Kinder 1 located the casualty party on the edge path they had move from the location provide. Thankfully we manage intercept them on their walk off, otherwise this could have turned into a very prolonged search and required assistance from the other PDMRO teams. The party were checked over by our team Remote Rescue Medical Technicians, who established there were six children in the group and one member of the casualty party had a minor lower leg injury but was able to continue.

Kinder 2 provided further assistance in walking the group to our team vehicles for a drive down to Hayfield to wait for their group driver to be taken to Barber Booth to retrieve their own vehicles.

Team members finally made it to bed around 3:30, to be up ready for work this morning, thankfully most we have understanding employers.

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: 22:45

– Type: Missing Person

– Location: Kinder Scout

– Team members: 17

– Duration: 4 hours

– Volunteer hours on this incident: 68 hours

– Total callout hours in 2025: 3277.5 hours