The team is funded exclusively through donations and fundraising and responds to about 100 call outs by the Derbyshire Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service every year.

This is achieved by conducting search and rescue missions for walkers, climbers and missing persons in and around the Peak District National Park.

[1][2] Buxton MRT and the PDMRO were both established in 1964 following the deaths of three young scouts during a blizzard on the Four Inns Walk in 1964.

[4] On 3 November 1948 the RAF team was called out to locate the US Air Force (USAF) Boeing RB-29A Superfortress which had crashed near Bleaklow moor on the Kinder Scout moorland plateau.

In 2003 HRH Prince Andrew opened the base's extension building which houses the team’s vehicles, equipment, climbing wall and incident control centre.