Rope Rescue & Rigging Guide – Third Edition
Rope Rescue & Rigging Guide – Third Edition
Rope Rescue & Rigging Field Guide (3rd edition)
for cave, canyon, alpine and rock.
Written and illustrated by Grant Prattley
The Rope Rescue & Rigging Field Guide provides easy to reference practical reminders on essential field techniques for teams and individuals training and responding to rope rescue incidents.
The Field Guide is for rescuers working in the backcountry, remote areas as well as off-road situations. In places where we need to carry the equipment some distance and then perform at a high level.
Includes information on personal skills, knot craft, communication, roles, anchors, lowering, pulleys, changing systems, directionals, load (e.g. stretchers), analysis and forces.
A6 sized 105 x 148mm
Waterproof paper
204 pages in full colour (70 additional pages from 2nd ed.)
250+ drawings
Published in 2020
NEW in the 3rd edition
Most drawings have been improved or redrawn;
Personal skills – harness setup for canyon and alpine/rock, edge kit
Knotcraft – doubled overhand bend, double sheet bend, 6on1 Schwabisch (asymmetric)
Communication – counterbalance voice commands, knot ID for rope ends
Anchors – Natural anchors, rock protection, human anchors
Lowering – two rope systems, figure-8 device, Scarab, belay device
Pulleys – two rope systems, counterbalance, pulley system – more complex progressions
Changing systems – new section – changeovers, passing bends, swapping systems, passing directionals
Load – canyon rescue stretcher
Aide memoir – as we use the book for training, at the back is a summarised comms section is in an easy to find location.
What’s been taken out: A new focus for the field guide. It’s for backcountry rescue where you expect to carry the gear some distance. So anything particularly heavy and things we don’t normally carry has been taken out. That means no 11mm ropes, SA frames, tripods, IDs and industrial harness setup.