alpine rescue
High-altitude emergency response
Alpine rescue is the organized effort to locate and save people in distress in mountainous terrain—stranded climbers, avalanche victims, injured hikers.
It typically involves specialized teams trained in technical climbing, helicopter operations, and wilderness medicine: The alpine rescue team reached the injured mountaineer by nightfall.
The term covers both the activity and the organizations that perform it.
- avalanchesMassive snow collapses
- ropesBraided flexible cords
- crevassesDeep glacier fractures
- rope teamLinked climbers sharing protection
- harnessesCaptures and directs energy
altitude sickness · high altitude · carabiners · stretchers · base camp · mountain guides · volunteers · rockfalls · hypothermia · emergency responders · crampons · frostbite · ice axes · steep terrain · blizzards · climbers · survival techniques · helicopter
- air rescuemedevac, air ambulance, airlift, life flight, medevac helicopter
- Mountain Medicinealtitude sickness, acute mountain sickness, mountain sickness, hypoxia, acclimatization
- ski injuriesACL tear, broken leg, broken arm, ACL tears, concussion
alpine rescuemaritime rescue
Saving people from water
sea rescue · ocean rescue · cave rescue · mine rescue · beach rescue
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