Karsten Delap – Essential Self-Rescue for Climbers

Karsten Delap – Essential Self-Rescue for Climbers

Check it out: Karsten Delap – Essential Self-Rescue for Climbers

You don’t need to end every climbing emergency with a full-blown helicopter rescue. In this eLearning class, Karsten Delap, an AMGA-certified rock and alpine guide, search-and-rescue team member, and wilderness EMT, will teach you essential self-rescue skills you can practice safely at home, in the gym, or at the crag. You’ll become a responsible climbing partner, allowing you think more quickly, be more efficient, and effectively respond to the most common climbing mishaps. You don’t rise to the occasion; you fall to your training.

At your own pace, you’ll learn the basics of self-rescue. Through instructional videos, detailed photos, and in-depth descriptions, you’ll learn rescue skills like taking over a top belay, how to ascend the rope to your partner if he’s been injured, and proper tandem belay and rappel techniques. Delap will show you, step by step, how to master critical knots and hitches, as well as teach you the intricacies of using various belay devices in a self-rescue situation, and more. You’ll also learn how to analyze common climbing situations (both cragging and multi-pitch) and deploy self-rescue tactics that can help you safely get down—or up—in the event that a rope jams, your climbing partner takes a catastrophic lead fall, or you encounter any other common mishap/entrapment/accident scenario that could otherwise necessitate calling for a third-party rescue. This course will teach you how to think critically and act safely and methodically in an emergency, so you’re prepared with a variety of possible action plans and not scrambling in the moment.

How This Course Works

We know you have a busy schedule, so we’ve designed this course to be taken at your own pace. You’ll learn through a variety of interactive formats, including video instruction, photo descriptions, quizzes, and more. Each lesson builds on the last, and, while we’ve designed the course to be 5 weeks long, you can take it as quickly or slowly as you want. Plus, once you purchase the course, the lessons are yours forever.

Course Overview

• How to Use this Program
• Introduction to Your Coach
• What is a Rescue?
• The Most Common Accidents, and How to Avoid Them

Self-Rescue Gear

• Traditional gear
• Self-Rescue specific gear

Must-Know Hitches and Knots

• Knots and hitches overview
• When to use which knot/hitch
• Friction hitches
• Mules

Escaping the System

• Taking over a bottom belay
• MBD (Manual Belay Device)
• ABD (Assisted Belay Device)
• Taking over a top belay
• Techniques
• ABD
• MBD
• Plaquette
• Getting to baseline

Going Up

• Why ascend
• Ascending with devices
• ABD
• Plaquette
• Friction hitches
• Using a mechanical advantage
• Raising techniques
• Grigri
• Plaquette
• Block and tackle

Descending

• When and why to descend
• Extended rappel
• Tandem rappel
• Lowering
• Climber can unweight
• Climber can’t unweight
• Passing knots

Course Wrap-Up

• Self-rescue scenarios