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12 Aug 2009 : Incident at Black Rocks
The team were called out at 15:15 on Monday (11th August) to an incident at Black Rocks, near Cromford. A 40 year old climbing instructor had suffered a fatal collapse whilst setting up for a lesson on top of a rocky pinnacle in the popular tourist spot.The team were requested by police to recover the man from the top of the crag. Due to the inaccessible location, a specialised rescue stretcher and rope system was used to lower the man to the ground from the peak.
The instructor was about to give a climbing lesson to a group of children and had been rigging up ropes at the top of the rock for the session when the incident occurred. The cause of death is not yet known but it is believed that the cause was medical and that no accident took place.
The team would like to pass on their condolences to the man’s family and friends.
