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2. Wilderness medical emergency - Wikipedia

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   A wilderness medical emergency is a medical emergency that takes place in a wilderness or remote setting affinitive care (hospital, clinic, etc.).Such an emergency can require specialized skills, treatment techniques, and knowledge in order to manage the patient for an extended period of time before and during evacuation.

3. Self rescue (climbing) - Wikipedia

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   Self-rescue (or self-extraction) is a group of techniques in climbing and mountaineering where the climber(s) – sometimes having just been severely injured – use their equipment to retreat from dangerous or difficult situations on a given climbing route without calling on third party search and rescue (SAR) or mountain rescue services for help.

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5. Cory Richards (climber) - Wikipedia

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   Returning to the Himalaya in 2011 for another winter expedition, Richards and his two climbing partners, Simone Moro and Denis Urubko, made the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II. They reached the summit at 11:30 am on February 2, 2011, without supplemental oxygen or porters and Richards became the first American to climb an eight-thousander ...

6. Containment, hotshots, evacuation orders: Understanding key ...

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   Evacuation warning. If an evacuation order means "go," an evacuation warning is the equivalent of "get set." It indicates that an area faces a potential threat to life and property, so people ...

7. Self-arrest - Wikipedia

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   Climber in the act of trying to embed the pick while rolling onto their stomach The self-arrest is a climbing technique mostly used in mountaineering and alpine climbing where a climber who has fallen and is sliding uncontrollably down a snow or ice-covered slope 'arrests' their fall by themselves by using their ice axe and their crampons .

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