About Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team

The Team provides an essential service not only to walkers and climbers, but also to the local community. The primary function of the Team is to provide a search and rescue service in upland mountainous areas. The majority of the Team’s incidents have been in Derbyshire, South and West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

However the Team has also been called to incidents as far as Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire and major incidents like Lockerbie. It provides search and rescue services in some of the most demanding upland areas in the Peak District.

Over the last ten years the team has seen an increase in requests for assistance from the statutory emergency services not only the police with missing persons searches, but also major incidents, and as part of local/national resilience strategy and planning.

This was brought national media attention during the floods in 2007 and more recently the winter pressures in 2010, the team having a major role in both incidents.