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Busy weekend for GMRT
(Monday 06 February 2012)
The Snow brought a sleepless night for the team last night with 7 incidents. 4 were to assist the Ambulance service in and around Glossop and 3 were searches on Bleaklow. The first was to Locate a gentlemen with his two boys who became lost in a white out not far from the Snake Summit. Whilst wrapping up this incident the team helped extract stuck cars and some lost scouts.
Then at 8pm the team was called to search for a man in his 70's who had luckily been found by two Fell runners training for the up coming High Peak Marathon. Initial information of the condition and location of the 3 was confusing so the team dispatched from Snake Summit assisted by Woodhead and Derby Teams from the Blacks area and Edale from the Upper Derwent. Fast Parties of SARDA Dogs were sent ahead of the main stretcher parties to confirm the location of the trio. The Party were quickly located by Glossop's Search Dog Toby and Handler in the Bleaklow Stones Area uninjured but Hypothermic.
The Evacuation route was decided as down Far Black Clough to the awaiting Glossop, Derby and Woodhead Vehicles. On the Decent on of the supporting Rescuers slipped in deep snow and injured their leg requiring a second stretcher carry down to the Blacks. The elderly Gentleman was met by an awaiting Ambulance on the Woodhead Road. All the Team Members were finally off the hill and stood down by 06:20.
It didn't take long before we were out again the team was called to assist the Ambulance Service to move an elderly lady with Pneumonia into an ambulance at 07:45amRecycle for charity
(Thursday 24 November 2011)
If you have old mobile phones or inkjet printer cartridges cluttering up your home or office, please consider recycling them through us so we can raise extra cash!
You can either bring them along to our sleigh at any of our events this Christmas, or click on the link below to request a freepost envelope.
Recycle for Glossop Mountain Rescue Team
We can get £1 per original inkjet cartridge and we receive 50% of the recycling value of any old mobile phone, so please clear out your clutter and help us rescue people at the same time. Thank you!Buy a Bear for Glossop Mountain Rescue Team
(Monday 10 October 2011)
To help us raise vital funds for the team you can now buy a Glossop Mountain Rescue Bear which comes with its own miniature rucksack. These 5 inch tall beauties cost £5 plus £1.50 p+p from this website or you can buy one from us directly when we’re at the following events:
29th October – Manor Park Autumn Fair
3rd December – Glossop Garden Centre
17th December – Norfolk Square
We hope you'll take your bear with you on your travels to interesting places. When you do, please take a photo and email it to the address you'll find in the bear's rucksack, and we will share it on our facebook page. If you don’t have a facebook account you can sill see all the where’s your bear been? pictures - so far bears have been snapped on exercise with the team on Bleaklow, in the Lake District, and on the top of Ben Nevis.
We hope you will enjoy showing your support for the team by buying a Glossop Mountain Rescue Bear!
Busy weekend for GMRT 
Recycle for charity
Buy a Bear for Glossop Mountain Rescue TeamRecent Rescues
| Incident date | Description of the rescue |
|---|---|
28/01/2012 | On Saturday evening 17.00 28th January Glossop Mountain Rescue Team found themselves very busy in the early evening. The first call was to assist North West Ambulance Service to extract a lady with lower leg injuries from the Doctors Gate Area. Whilst this incident was underway the team were called to a second incident to assist a couple benighted in the fog on Torside Clough. A party was dispatched to Torside Visitors car park where the couple we located having found their own way off the hill. The third incident resulted from information given to the police from two passers-by regarding a male with an injured ankle around the Bleaklow Head area. The team dispatched a small party to the area but the search was without a find. |
21/01/2012 | On Saturday 21st January at 18:09 the teams exercise was disrupted as the team were called to search Bleaklow for a male and female with a dog who had become benighted. The team requested assistance from Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team, 3 Search & Rescue Dogs and a police helicopter. The helicopter quickly located the couple in the Westend area of the Derwent and passed their location to the team. The missing couple were located and the female had suffered ligament damage to her knee and foot. She was evacuated to a waiting ambulance. All team members were off the hill by 3am. |
07/01/2012 | Saturday 7th January 18.00hrs Glossop Mountain Rescue Team were called out to two separate incidents both involving male walkers lost just off the Snake road. The first missing person was a 50 year old male from the Huddersfield area who was found quickly by the teams Search and Rescue Dog Toby and his handler just off the Snake Summit. As the walker was being escorted to the team vehicle a call came in to search for a second missing person in the same area. However, before the search commenced, the second walker was picked up by a police vehicle further down the road. Both were safe and well and taken back to the team’s base in Glossop. |
For details of GMRT's callouts dating back to 1959 click here to visit the callout log.
Weather
- Peak District weekend weather forecast from Mountain Weather Information Service
mwis.org.uk - Glossop weather at a glance from weatheronline.co.uk
(click on 'Glossop' for a more detailed forecast)
