GRIMP Day - Technical rope rescue competition

GRIMPday is an international, multidisciplinary technical rope rescue competition which takes place every October in Namur. The fourth edition was a face-off between 23 teams, from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany. The participants were firefighters, soldiers, police officers, rescuers, etc. All are members of GRIMP - Groupe de Reconnaissance et dIntervention en Milieu Périlleux (Reconnaissance and Intervention in Dangerous Environments Group). In teams of six and observed by evaluators, participants carried out a series of practical exercises on a timed and graded course: vertical evacuation of a victim, Tyrolean traverse, rappelling, underground progression, stretcher evacuation on a hill, etc.
See more pictures and stories on :
http://www.petzl.com/en/videos-1/2009/10/27/grimpday-2009-video

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• GRIMP
• GRMPday
• rescue
• firefighters
• rope rescue
• Belgium

[jorge325]

Awesome...!!!! I want to go....!!!

[bommaz]

Brilliant, get the full event on Uk TV, we need entertainment. Great job all of you.

[RoguePhoenix6]

@RoguePhoenix6 Correction at 5:05

[RoguePhoenix6]

At 5:08, is the victim eating a sandwich? Haha thanks and great job guys keep up the good work.

[TheExtremetree]

Nice job!

[jdubbery]

565m zipline? sick

[bajaexcursions]

Awsome... we should do something similar here... congratulations to all participants.