On Monday evening, two walkers became lost in the dark on the route across the plateau between the downfall and Crowden Clough. To add to their difficulties, they were in an area where they had no mobile signal, they did however manage to send 999 a text via the satellite SOS service.
The pair had reported that they were very cold and as we weren’t completely sure of the location, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team deployed a couple of fast parties to establish if they were actually there. Three search dog teams from Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England were also deployed as the plateau is a very large area to search if they turned out not to be there.
Co-incidentally, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team were also on a job to find some other lost walkers near the top of Grindsbrook. They had started their job a bit earlier than Kinder's, so were already in the area and were able to spare some people to help out.
As the team was on its way along the plateau, the controller managed to make contact with the couple. They had continued to walk out and had ended up not too far from one of the Buxton teams. The Buxton team members were able to find the missing couple and walk them safely back to their car in Edale.
The deployment took 3 hours across Crowden Head.
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