Buxton Mountain Rescue deployed to fallen walker at popular Peak District beauty spot
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Buxton Mountain Rescue attended an incident after a walker fell alongside the Edale Mountain Rescue team.
Mountain Rescue teams were called by Derbyshire Constabulary to attend to a fallen walker with a lower leg injury in the upper reaches of Cavedale on Sunday, November 19.
The walker, who was from a large organised group, was quickly located and their ankle injury was splinted .
The casualty was then evacuated back towards Rowter Farm to meet their group transport which was going to take them on to a more local hospital in the Liverpool area.
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