Ill-prepared “Instagram hikers” have been warned against heading into the Peak District hills to take photos by the eerie wreckage of a plane after mountain rescue volunteers were called out twice in one day to assist them. The crash site at Higher Shelf Stones, on moorland between Manchester and Sheffield, contains large sections of a US military plane that plunged into a ridge in fog in 1948, killing all 13 men on board. During lockdown it became a popular check-in site on social media, with hikers flocking to take pictures of the debris. “The Peak District has become a big draw for visitors from Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and beyond during the recent lockdown. In one case, dozens of Mountain Rescue volunteers, alongside several search dogs, rushed to scour Higher Shelf Stones after receiving information about a hiker in difficulty.

Source: The Guardian November 20, 2020 13:07 UTC