Kinder Mountain Rescue Team members on their way to help the collapsed man on Bleaklow
A Peak District rescue team has turned the camera on its activities for an account of a major incident this weekend.
The Kinder Mountain Rescue Team’s video account of a snow-bound rescue involving 40 members from three different teams has been posted as a five-minute YouTube recording of their search and recovery of a walker on Bleaklow.
The Kinder team was called out yesterday, Saturday, to help their Glossop colleagues who had been alerted to a man who had collapsed close to the Pennine Way on the 600m (1,970ft) plateau of the hill, east of Glossop. The Edale MRT also joined the operation.
The rescuers, with section leader Nigel Taylor in charge, had to contend with 1.2m (4ft) snowdrifts and low cloud, which prevented both the air ambulance and a military Sea King helicopter reaching the collapsed walker.
The man had been walking with his son when he collapsed. It took more than three hours to get the man to the safety of the road, where he was taken to hospital by ambulance.
More details of the Hayfield-based rescue team can be seen on its website.
