Essential Self-Rescue Skills

Description

Course booking – Essential Self-Rescue Skills – Melbourne Climbing School

This is a two-day course covering tips, tricks and practising rescue scenarios that anyone could come across in the outdoors. These essential skills you should know to become a safe outdoor climber, and the tool-box of skills you can draw from to enhance your everyday climbing experience will be valuable as well!

Here is a rough outline of the topics we plan to cover:

• Belaying in “Guide mode” or with a Grigri from above
• Safe Lowering from a locked device in “Guide Mode”
• Rope management at the belay station
• Z-drags
• Assisted hoists
• Methods for belaying safely if you don’t have a belay device
• Tying off a belay device
• Escaping the belay to attend to an emergency situation
• Lowering a partner past a knot (i.e. lowering a partner more than the rope length)
• Prusik knots and their uses
• Abseiling with a prusik backup
• Abseiling past a knot
• Prusiking up, and prusiking past a knot
• Setting up a “retrievable abseil” to abseil more than ½ the rope length
• Assisted abseil
• Rescuing a stuck abseiler from above