Technical Rescue Riggers Guide (Spiral-bound)

by Rick Lipke (Author)

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Product Description
The new revised edition, Technical Rescue Riggers Guide by Rick Lipke, shows some of the most up to date techniques rope rescue available today. 126 pages, 296 clear illistrations and photos, from basic knots and anchors, to highlines, helo rescues, and much more! Completely cross referenced, with handy safety reminders throughout. Already on its third printing, this guide is rapidly becomming the defacto national standard for safe, intelligent rope rescue. A portion of the sale of this guide goes to support volunteer mountain rescue.

About the Author
Rick Lipke is an internationally known expert on rope rescue. He has been involved in emergency pre-hospital care and technical rescue for over 20 years. He has taught courses in wilderness and urban emergency care throughout North and South America, as well as high angle programs for industry. He is a technical advisor for Washington Mountain Rescue, performing dozens of technical rescues a year. He also works as an alpine ski patroller for Mt. Baker Ski Area in the North Cascades. An active climber and mountain biker, he lives with his wife Wendy and twin sons in Bellingham. Wa

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 122 pages
• Publisher: Conterra Inc; 1 edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966577701
• ISBN-13: 978-0966577709
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #181,519 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but a somewhat different technique than standard, April 23, 2000

By	Fidel, MD (Saving Lives, everywhere) - See all my reviews

The Technical Rescue Riggers Guide is a small, pocket sized wealth of information, similar to the CMC Rope Rescue Field Guide. Written by talented and proficient rescuers from the Pacicific Northwest, it advocates some somewhat non-standard (to the usual CMC / Rescue-3 / etc) school of thought, but has better descriptions of rigging highlines, etc than most field guides. Their recommendations for rope kits are probably the most complete (possibly overdone) I've ever seen, but their technique of color-coding webbing lengths certainly makes sense.

All in all a valuable addition to the rescuers library, and the techniques are worth considering by all rescue teams. All in all,

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Technical Rescue Riggers Guide, April 14, 2001

By	Ice dancer - See all my reviews

One of the best, I highly recommend it as a quick refresher. The technology is excellent, and the illustrations clear. Lipke has distilled the material to the essence of what is needed to perform high end rescues.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but..., October 1, 2000

By	Thomas W P Slatin "TomSlatin.com" (Schoharie, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellant field refrence guide providing that you have completed a class in rope rescue. Also, the pages are made of paper instead of plastic, which is the norm for Fire / Rescue field guides. Since it is made with paper, it is rendered useless quite quickly in adverse conditions. All in all, only buy this book if you are competent enough to understand the instruction and responsible enough to put it to good use.