Crevasse Rescue Practice

Just for some practice I have been pulling the kids and E up into the tree, all the while pretending that they have just fallen into a deep cold crevasse.

The first victim, the expedition leader, an experienced climber born in the desert country but always drawn to the cold bitter environments:





Working to get the frozen climber out (who would just jump back in).



The second victim, the professor. Who was on a grant to measure the rate of melting on the glacier, why? Because the man who invented the Internet claimed it was melting too fast.



The third victim, the hot shot climber who has a long list of first ascents in the Alaskan range, Himalaya, and Karakoram. The only man alive today who has climbed K2 alpine style and then skied off the face completely without any bottled oxygen.



Working the Z-pulley system to get them all out:



...and some backup (the professor has a lot of heavy gear that needs to come up):