Man with 'badly broken lower legs' rescued as walkers flock to 'icy, muddy' Peak District

Edale Mountain Rescue said two of the incidents were within 150 yards of each other near Mam Tor above Castleton, with the third in the same area.

They happed on a ‘glorious’ sunny day, above a cloud inversion in the Hope Valley, which resulted in icy and muddy paths. The first incident at 11.30am happened when a man descending from Hollins Cross on the Great Ridge between Castleton and Edale slipped on steep, muddy, icy ground and injured his ankle. Mountain rescuers stretchered him to an ambulance at Mam Farm. An hour later they were called to a walker 150 yards away who had apparently broken both of his lower leg bones. He was stretchered back to the road.

At 2.20pm they were called back to the Great Ridge where a young man had suffered a dislocated and possibly broken ankle. After treatment he was carried off the hill to await the ambulance for transport to Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

In a tweet, Edale Mountain Rescue thanked colleagues at Buxton Mountain Rescue who were also involved and East Midlands Ambulance Service.

Edale Mountain Rescue Team is one of the busiest in the country. 2020 was the busiest year in its history with members involved in 156 incidents throughout its operational area, which covers parts of the counties of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.