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Free Rope Rescue PDF Manual
I have put together a free PDF rope rescue manual for anyone who is interested it comes after I did a rope rescue for climbers course, and Ady who was on the course wanted a manual for revision. Most of … Continue reading
Posted in climbing, Coaching skills, learning, rescue, rock climbing, Rope Rescue, Skill Acquisition
Tagged Climbing, rope rescue
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Rope Rescue for Climbers
I spent another day with Ady, working on developing his jedi rope skills, and we focused on consolidating the skills we covered the day before, which is an approached that I have often used in these courses as the skills … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, rescue, Rigging, Rope Rescue, Skill Acquisition, Uncategorized
Tagged Climbing, Coaching, rope rescue
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Opinions are a dangerous things
I am as many readers of this blog are more than aware, an opinionated person, and I share those opinions with you. This can and does turn round and bite me back. My recent outburst on an incident that happened … Continue reading
A Brief History of Mountain Rescue
I guess if we are going to explore the history of mountainr escue we must first travel back in time to when it became important enough an issue for there to be a need. So as we flick back through … Continue reading
Rain and Rescues
I have spent the day main trying to prepare for next weekend LLAMFF so its been a little bit of death by powerpoint, although I have also had to put together a brief history of Mountain Rescue for the Bangor … Continue reading
Today on The Ben
Well my final day on the hill with PYB, and I was heading up No. 4 Gully with a team of Mountaineers. The weather started off good and got better. Hopefully the photos will convey just how good it got. … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, Dave MacLoed, dry tooling, Ice Axe, Photos, Plas Y Brenin, rescue, Scotland, Uncategorized, Walking, Winter, Winter Climbing
Tagged Climbing, Photos, plas y brenin, scotland, walking, Winter, Winter Courses
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Lowering passed a knot video
I have just put a video up on my coaching website on lowering passed a knot. You can click straight across here. Tweet
Posted in climbing, Coaching skills, rescue, rock climbing, Rope Rescue, Uncategorized
Tagged Climbing, Coaching, rope rescue, Videos
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Should we discuss/analyze/speculate or otherwise pick apart Accidents?
I recent read a thread on UKC. I was very bored and drunk in a bar in Santiago, and sadly there were no stewardess to look at. Anyway the threads starter stated a firm belief that WE shouldn’t speculate over … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, climb, climbers, climbing, random chat, rescue, Uncategorized
Tagged Climbing, Life, mountain rescue
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Ten Tors Verdict
I have been catch up on the UK news of the BBC website. I saw a piece on the Coronoer verdict on death of a Ten Tors participant when training for the event. They suggest that all team leaders need … Continue reading
The Freakonomics of Mountain Rescues
I have written many pieces on mountain rescue, some well received by the masses but less so within the Rescue team that I volunteered for, a team that due to personal circumstance I am taking what might be seen as … Continue reading
