So would I. Unfortunately we are all volunteers 😀. I just look at it as my second unpaid full time job!

@@alanhowarth1 if i lived closer, id volunteer

It's usually a number of factors involved before someone decides to call for help. We get quite a few calls for assistance from people in this area of the plateau. In most cases it's a combination of expecting the route to be a clear path, so only needing to carry out basic navigation and the weather / visibility being worse than expected. Mix that in with the conditions under foot making it feel further and the wind and temperature making everything more difficult. In most cases they have been making every effort to get off the plateau but have been walking round for hours and are getting exhausted. In these cases we'd much rather get called before they become too cold to walk out of there, otherwise it's in danger of becoming a very long and difficult stretcher carry.

Thanks - Hope you enjoy the videos.

We do still do the occasional major search on the plateau, but with improved cellular coverage and tools like PhoneFind and SARLOC we often know where they are (even if they don't). Occasionally we have a problem where they are in a coverage blackspot or their phone has run out of batteries and then it's back to the old school searching techniques.

We get most of our stretchers from Lyon Equipment: lyon.co.uk/stretchers. But we also have a couple of specialist stretchers. We have the Alpine lite for crag work from SAR products: www.sar-products.com/product-category/stretchers/stretchers-stretchers/ and our water team uses this one: safequip.co.uk/product/basket-stretcher/

@@alanhowarth1 Thanks!

I'm assuming you mean the stretcher & wheel? Not heard it called a Mule before, but I like the name. We use a Bell stretcher, which is designed specifically for UK Mountain Rescue teams. It's not as light as some we've used but it comfortably fits 8 people around it when we need to carry it and can be rigged as a working platform for vertical rescues. It splits in to two halves when it needs to be carried in. Each half weighs 12KG. We've also just had a new wheel fabricated for us using a Mountain bike "Fat boy" tyre which is more stable and lighter than the one in this video. I've just filmed a video using this new one, which hopefully I'll get out soon.

The whole team do water awareness, which teaches them how to operate safely around water, but only a small number go on to do the Swift Water training. In our team it's about 12 people out of the 50 team members. You have to be comfortable in fast moving water and it's a big time commitment on top of all the other MR training, so not too many people want to do it.

Glad we could help. I hope it doesn't take her too long to get walking again.

Yep. Well done lads . I hope they gave you a generous donation 👍

Thanks - It set off as quite a nice night when we left the vehicles. You could see the lights of Manchester in the distance. By the time we got to the top it was blowing a hoolie and you could see about three feet in front of you.