Two walkers called 999 to report that they had become lost on the top of Kinder Scout.  They managed to get enough phone signal to talk to the police, who managed to get a location from them of Crowden Head, right in the middle of the plateau.

As they had limited network coverage, the 999 call had jumped on to another cellular network to connect.  This means they can get a connection out, but we then can’t call them back or send them our PhoneFind text message, as they still don’t have coverage on their network to receive calls.

We began our deployment plan of sending a party in to the plateau along the watershed route, with other parties covering the main escape routes, as we guessed they may still be trying to find a way down, so may well be on the move.

This proved to be a good guess, as not long after we started to deploy, the missing pair responded to one of our texts and their location pinged up on our map as being near the Downfall.  We diverted our hill parties and soon met up with them on the Edge path.

They were escorted back to our vehicles before being driven down and on to onward transport home.

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: 19:45

– Type: Mountain Incident

– Location: Crowden Head, Kinder Scout

– Team members: 22

– Duration: 2.5 Hours

– Volunteer hours on this incident: 55 hours

– Total callout hours in 2025: 3360 hours