High Angle Rescue Techniques

With a well laid out design, and many useful pictographs of knots, harnesses and haul systems, this book serves as a quality textbook for a Technical Rescue course.

Tom Vines is the training officer at Carbon County Sheriff's Search and Rescue in Red Lodge, Montana. Steve Hudson is President of Pigeon Mountain Industries, Inc., and Deputy Director, Walker County Emergency Management in Lafayette, Georgia. Together these two experts have created an instructional text that can be read profitably by anyone, whether a beginner or an experienced rope jockey. Every chapter is fully illustrated, teaching skills step-by-step in an instructional style that works in the classroom as well as on the side of a cliff. Quizzes at the end of each chapter help hone your skills, and answers, provided at the back of the book, allow you to check your knowledge.

This book is a great one for those who are interested in persuing high/steep angle rescue. It serves as an excellent guide and is illustrated with easy to understand pictures and comments. I would recommend this book to anyone that is or will be a student or become involved in any techinical rescue team/situation.

This is a great book for somebody already involved in rescue work wanting to go the next step. It has lots of great info and good pictures. It takes some background knowledge to go through it with ease but in the case that you do not have that background it walks you through everything step by step. Under no circumstances does this book take the place of the instructor but it does make a great addition to the class. I highly suggest this book for anybody who is going to actively participate in high angle rescue work.

Hudson and Vine give an excellent, easy to read manual for the how-to's of rope rescue. Rangers, firefighters, SWAT officers and those folks who like to hang on rope will appreciate the logical layout and easy to follow instructions. If you have an interest in the vertical world of rope rescue, this is an excellent volume for your library.