Mountain Search & Rescue Galleries

Photos of mountain rescue training exercises, including technical cliff-based scenarios as well as helicopter-based insertion and extraction on technical terrain.
Teams include MCSA (Cape Town, Hottentots Holand & Johannesburg) S.A. Air Force 17 & 22 Squadrons, Red Cross Air Mercy Service and other members of WSAR

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MCSA, November 2006

India Ravine/Venster Buttress: technical cliff rescue training

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MCSA, 14 July 2007

Junction Peak, Table Mountain: technical cliff rescue scenario

SAR photos

MCSA, July 2006

Lion's Head, Table Mountain: granite cliff rescue training

MCSA, 31 March 2007

Steenbras Dam, Hottentot's Holland Mountains: highline exercise

MCSA, 23 March 2006

Venster Buttress, Table Mountain: cliff rescue training

MCSA, 08 April 2006

Nursary Buttress, Table Mountain: technical cliff rescue training

MCSA, 05 July 2009

Lakeside Pinacle, Silvermine: technical cliff rescue training

AMS + WSAR, 23 May 2009

Devil's Peak / Tafelberg Rd: hoist insertion, shorthaul extraction

AMS + WSAR, 20 June 2009

Devil's Peak/Newlands Forest: shorthaul insertion and extraction

AMS + WSAR, 19 September 2009

Devil's Peak Saddle, Table Mountain: hoist insertion and extraction

SAAF 22 Sqdn + WSAR, 11 March 2006

Suicide Gorge: helicopter-based mountain rescue exercise

SAAF 17 Sqdn + MCSA JHB, December 2006

Drakensberg: helicopter-based mountain rescue exercise

SAAF 22 Sqdn + WSAR, 03 February 2007

Du Toits Kloof: helicopter-based mountain rescue exercise

SAAF 22 Sqdn + WSAR, 10 October 2006

Dam Area, Table Mountain: helicopter-based mountain rescue exercise

SAAF 22 Sqdn + WSAR, 16 November 2006

Llandudno/12 Apostles, Table Mountain: helicopter-based mountain rescue exercise

SAAF 22 Sqdn + WSAR, 21 February 2009

Wemmershoek: helicopter-based mountain rescue

Mountain rescue seminars, September 2004 & January 2006

Presented by John Evans, Table Mountain

Mountain rescue seminar, December 2011

With Laurent Schneitter, Table Mountain