Always ready to assist our neighbouring teams.

By Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team

Missing person search 25-26 April

Last weekend we were contacted by West Yorkshire Police shortly before 9pm on Saturday to assist with a search for a missing person in their nineties.

Given their age and vulnerability we deployed the full team immediately. On arrival we mapped the search areas the police had asked us to cover and by 5am we had covered all the search areas, sadly making no find.

Later that morning after a few hours’ sleep we were contacted by the police again after new CCTV evidence had emerged which changed the focus of the search, and we once again deployed the team to a new search area. Calder Valley Search & Rescue Team kindly came to our assistance, deploying their team members to help boost numbers.

Whilst travelling to the area we heard from WYP that the missing person had been found, alive and well, but that they were on a steep, brambly banking and needed our help to extricate and get them to an ambulance.

The extraction went well, with HVMRT members and CVSRT members working together to get the casualty to the ambulance.

Remarkably, at 91 years old and having spent all night out in near zero temperatures, the casualty was in good spirits and chatting with us. We take our hats off! We offer our very best wishes to the casualty and their family after undoubtedly a very scary incident.

Search Dog Willow on duty