Peak District walkers injured after slipping on ice during snowy conditions

Edale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to three separate incidents in the Peak District after climbers slipped on ice left over from the heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures that swept the county.

The team were called to assist a couple of friends who were out for their daily exercise during lockdown on Big Moor, when one of them slipped while walking from Barbrook Reservoir on the A621 at 12.28pm on February 13.

The woman who fell suffered a hip injury and was unable to get back onto the road, despite support from her walking companion and passers by.

A paramedic from the Edale Mountain Rescue Team assessed the walker and gave her analgesia – a pain relief drug before she was packaged in a warm, specialist bag and carried back down the road on a stretcher before being transferred to hospital by East Midlands Ambulance Service.

Workers said the woman was treated more quickly, as the team could drive to the casualties location to give immediate care without access points being blocked off.

The team were called out again shortly afterwards at around 2.12pm, after they received a call that a distressed walker had fallen in a bog while on Burbage North and was suffering from a type of chest pain called angina.

Snowy and cold conditions on Saturday meant mountain rescue workers made their way over to the road vehicle, the casualty then made themselves known to the driver and clarified that they no longer needed assistance.

The team then helped the man who had fallen back down to his vehicle.

At 4.55pm Edale Mountain Rescue were requested to help a third walker who had sustained an ankle injury after slipping on ice while walking on Stanage Edge.

The casualty had become exhausted, having started their walk at 9.00am some distance away and needed help to get down.

When the team arrived at the scene, the injured walker was reportedly cold and exhausted.

He was then recovered by the team, assessed for medical conditions and lifted back to a safe place so he could make his way back home.

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