14 November 2010 Crevasse Training

I'll let the pictures do most of the talking here, but it's at least worth explaining what we did all day yesterday. The morning started out with some indoor training. We reviewed several different knots commonly used while climbing, as well as the physics of pulleys and mechanical advantage in helping to extract someone that might have fallen into a crevasse.

After training indoors, it was time to move to the snow. We rode out to the Ross Ice Shelf in a Piston Bully. There is a training crevasse about 20 feet deep we used for the afternoon to practice various forms of extraction including self-extraction.