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Busy bank holiday weekend for mountain rescue volunteers

Glossop Mountain Rescue Team helped a female walker who had fallen on stones at Pack Saddle near Lees Hill. Image: Glossop MRT.

The bank holiday weekend saw a number of the High Peak's volunteer mountain rescue teams called into action. 

A climber suffered multiple fractures in a significant fall in the Froggatt Edge on Sunday evening. Edale MRT were called in and, due to the nature of the injuries, requested an air ambulance. 

The injured climber was flown to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield for treatment. 

Earlier in the day, the team were called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service with a walker near to Hope Station, who had injured their leg. 

Team members fundraising in Hathersage and Edale were quickly on scene. The walker was treated at the scene then carried on a stretcher to the waiting ambulance and taken to hospital. 

Glossop Mountain Rescue Team were called out by Greater Manchester Police on Saturday afternoon to help a walker who had fallen on stones at Pack Saddle, near Lees Hill, injuring her hip.  

She was given first aid at the scene and taken on a stretcher to one of the MRT vehicles to meet up with an ambulance and taken to Tameside Hospital. 

The Edale and Buxton Teams were called out on Friday morning helping someone who had become stuck while on Elbow Ridge. They were uninjured and were helped down. 

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