About

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 in upland mountainous areas and assist the police to search for  missing persons in lowland rural 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.