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.
Kinder MRT, like many MRTs, occasionally operates alongside the Fire & Rescue Service, particularly with respect to water search and rescue operations, which has always proved immensely successful. As both organisations now also operate in accordance with DEFRA’s standardised Concept of Operations for water and flood rescue, it was apparent that there was a potential...
The team have been able to undertake a very limited number of necessary face-to-face training sessions during the last 12 months; these are conducted using the bare-minimum number of team members with suitable COVID19 – compliant PPE with safety and decontamination measures in place. ‘Core Skill’ training is an essential requirement for the team to...
I’ve recently been doing some work on analysing the Kinder MRT callout data. It occurred to me that it would be useful to see where people walk on Kinder to see where the most popular routes are and if possible, where people struggle with their navigation. Having looked around for data, I hit on the...
The team would like to extend a huge thank you to Arm Ltd for their very generous charitable donation to enable the team to purchase a third Bell rescue stretcher. Our stretchers are absolutely critical to the effective operations of the team as we frequently have to carry casualties by stretcher before a land or air ambulance...
Well this is certainly an auspicious year for the team; 50 years ago the team was created through the amalgamation of the Sett Valley Mountain Rescue Team and the Goyt Search and Rescue Team – Kinder MRT (KMRT – not to be confused with Keswick MRT or Kintail MRT) is believed to be the only...
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