Thursday 13th September 2012

Edale MRT have attended 3 incidents in the last week, including a callout for a climber who had fallen at Dovestone Tor on Derwent Edge.

The team gets called for lots of fallen climbers - there are some of the most popular outcrop climbing in the world on their patch - but in the last 12 years, they have never been called to a climber on Derwent Edge. This edge is one of the more remote climbing crags in the area, with a long walk in from the nearest road.



On this occasion, a young woman climbing on Saturday afternoon had fallen and sustained some nasty facial injuries as well as a possible spinal injury. The Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance arrived on scene shortly before the first team members.

After being assessed, she was loaded on to the stretcher and vacuum mattress and carried to the aircraft, (above) which had been forced to land some distance away.

Earlier in the day, the team had been tasked to another lady who had fallen off her bike on the Monsal Trail near Great Longstone and broken her leg. After pain relief and splinting she was carried along the disused railway line to an ambulance near the village.

On Wednesday 5th September, the team were called to rescue another young woman, this time a runner with an ankle injury in woodland between Grindleford and Hathersage. An ambulance had managed to reach her and the team were stood down while they were assembling at the rendezvous point.

These jobs bring the total number of incidents for 2012 to 84, which is almost exactly the same as the previous year, despite the terrible summer weather.

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