Section
A Sierra rescue from a couloir, the Eiger Nordwand recovery in 1936, volunteer mountain rescue in Snowdonia, a winter rescue on Cairn Gorm.
Rescues
Tasmania Police Search and Rescue brought a bushwalker out of the upper Donaldson River catchment after a four-day search in temperate rainforest. The terrain made every method except long-line evacuation impractical.
Rescues
A serac collapse on the Khumbu Icefall on April 24 took six climbing Sherpas and one Western climber. The cooperative's rescue team brought down four living and three dead in a single day at the start of the climbing season.
Rescues
A spring storm on the Walker Spur caught two French climbers at the second band. The Aosta Valley rescue service brought them off the wall by long-line in a four-hour window between weather systems.
Rescues
Summit County Search and Rescue spent nine days in May looking for a sixty-six-year-old elk hunter who had not come home from a four-day solo trip into the Bald Mountain drainage. He was found three miles from his truck.
Rescues
Two years on from the Coire an t-Sneachda call-out that took thirty-one hours and four teams, Mountain Ledger walks the line of the rescue with the deputy team leader of Cairngorm MRT.
Rescues
A January call-out for two underprepared scramblers on Tryfan's North Ridge ended at one in the morning with a four-stretcher lower down Heather Terrace. The team has done fifteen Tryfan jobs already this winter.
Rescues
Toni Kurz died fifteen metres from his rescuers on the morning of July 22, 1936. The recovery of his body, and of the three men who had died above him, took six weeks and changed what mountain rescue meant in the Bernese Oberland.
Rescues
Inyo County Search and Rescue spent thirty-one hours bringing a fallen climber out of the East Face of Mount Whitney in April. The route in was a corniced ridge at 13,800 feet and the route out was the same ridge, in worse light.