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.
At 09:30 we were asked by Derbyshire Police to assist with a search for a woman missing from home in New Mills. We deployed team members on foot, a combined Kinder MRT and Glossop MRT water team, a search dog and an MRT Buxton drone. We searched the Sett Valley from Thornsett to Waterside at...
The duty controller called us at 7pm tasking us to a group of 8 people on the lower Slopes of Kinder in the area above Peter Nook Wood, the group had been out for a walk and become lost as night descended and the weather worsened. We tried utilising phone find technology to pin point...
The team were deployed this afternoon to assist North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) at an incident in Romiley with a young Mountain Biker, an Ambulance crew were on scene however due to casualty status, the ground condition and location we were asked to attend in support. NWAS also dispatched Helimed in support. We had numerous...
2025 got off to an fast start with an early morning request for assistance from Greater Manchester Police. Around 400 people were trapped in flats at Meadow Mill in Stockport. The building is close to the river and an unexpectedly high volume of overnight rain had meant that that river levels had risen to a...
After a busy New Years day and with the water team still decontaminating and packing away equipment from callout 1 we had our third callout of 2025. A family of 3 plus their dog had gone for a walk on Kinder and become lost and benighted they had called 999 for assistance and we were...
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