MOUNTAIN rescuers had to help two people who were hurt before they set out on a charity trek ... to raise money for mountain rescue teams.
Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team was called to help a 41-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man who had been hurt in the car park at Crow Edge Community Centre.
They were blown over by powerful winds as they waited to set off on the Grin N’ Bear it trek.
The woman from Lepton suffered a serious wrist injury and had to undergo surgery at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
The man suffered an ankle injury and was also taken to HRI.
At 3.15am the team had already been out to Hoyland near Barnsley after a 94-year-old woman had failed to return home after taking her dog for a walk.
She was found about half-a-mile from her home confused but otherwise well by a motorist.
Shortly before 11am on Saturday the team were back out again, this time on Midhope Moor not far from the Flouch roundabout in South Yorkshire where they carried a 47-year-old runner with a broken leg two miles to safety.
Two miles away a walker had also fallen in the high winds and suffered a broken leg so the team helped Edale Mountain Rescue Team carry him to safety.
The Blackpool-based North West Air Ambulance had come to try to rescue him, but had been forced down on the moor by the blustery winds and had to stay there until the windspeed dropped.
Woodhead team leader Mike France said: "Saturday certainly was a manic day."
