Overview
- Emergency services were called at 10:46am on August 27 to a fall near Ilam Moor Lane, where a man was found about 100 metres up a steep hillside with potentially serious injuries.
- Ambulance staff delivered trauma care on the slope before mountain rescue and fire crews lowered the Ilam patient to the valley using a rope system and carried him to the Midlands Air Ambulance.
- He was flown to Royal Stoke University Hospital for further emergency care, according to West Midlands Ambulance Service.
- In a separate operation at The Roaches on August 28, Buxton Mountain Rescue said a climber fell six metres before being placed on a scoop stretcher, transferred to a mountain rescue stretcher, and carried to a waiting ambulance.
- Multiple agencies coordinated both extractions, including West Midlands Ambulance Service, Midlands Air Ambulance, mountain rescue volunteers, and fire crews, with no further condition updates released.