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.
The evening of Monday 7 September saw the team out at Manchester Canoe Club in Marple for their annual Mod 1 Water Rescue training session; the conditions both in and out of the water were somewhat damp but, then, it is water rescue training after all! The onset of darkness for session 2 added an...
The team were called to assist Buxton Mountain Rescue Team in the search for a pair of missing walkers on Kinder Scout. Buxton team had initially managed to retrieve a location for the missing walkers using one of our phone locator tools which placed them on the southern edges of Kinder. A couple of Buxton...
We were contacted by the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation Duty Controller at 4pm with reports of a group of walkers lost in the low cloud on Kinder Scout. Details were sketchy but indications were they were somewhere near the western edge. Eventually we managed to locate them using our PhoneFind technology, just south of...
Having only just returned home from carrying out COVID decontamination following Callout 30, the team received a call from Greater Manchester Police asking for assistance in searching for a missing person in the Bramhall area of Stockport. Whilst the Police were carrying out their enquiries, we were asked to search some woodlands in the area. ...
The team received a call from a member of the public to say that they had come across a lone walker who had tripped and taken a significant tumbling fall while descending the steep steps from Kinder Low. The walker was semi-conscious and in a great deal of pain. Two Kinder team sections were urgently...
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