Basic training - Bergrettung Tirol

TRAINING COURSES AT THE LOCAL OFFICES AND TWO BASIC COURSES

TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE IS EXTENSIVE BUT NEVER BORING.

STANDARDISED TRAINING GUARANTEES PROBLEM-FREE COOPERATION, EVEN ACROSS BOUNDARIES OF LOCAL OFFICES.

As a mountain rescue candidate, you have a trial year to absorb as much technical mountain rescue knowledge and skills as possible. This is also the time to develop as an alpinist within the mountain rescue organisation and to remedy any deficits.

Once the candidate examination has been passed, the winter and summer courses follow. In each case, a week of intensive training in which the prospective mountain rescuer gets to know all facets of mountain rescue. But also a week full of camaraderie and wonderful tours in an impressive alpine landscape.

training

at local office

PRESENT TRAININGS

some local offices train and practise almost every week. over and over again.

Training courses and exercises are held at the local offices on an ongoing basis. The entire spectrum of training is run again and again.

Anyone who wants to remain in the operational team of a local office must complete at least 6 training courses or exercises per year. As a candidate, you have a lot to learn in order to be prepared for the candidate examination and the basic courses.

The training management of the local offices must ensure that both emergency rescuers and trainees receive the best possible training in accordance with current standards.

Basic courses

COMPREHENSIVE BASIC TRAINING

SEARCH, RESCUE, SUPPLY, TRANSPORT - SUMMER AND WINTER - DAY AND NIGHT - THIS IS WHAT THE BASIC COURSES PREPARE YOU FOR

Around 120 candidates per year take up the challenge of becoming a mountain rescuer. Most of them also make it to the basic courses.

One week of intensive training and practice in winter and one week in summer at the Jamtal training centre. Not everyone makes it, some fail on the 11-kilometre approach in winter, others fail living in a hut with 30 others in a confined space. But those who persevere still talk about their basic courses decades later.

WINTER COURSE

The aim of the basic winter training is to improve the participant’s skills
in ski mountaineering and light ice so that a mountain rescuer can move safely on the glacier with skis, crampons and ice axe during winter operations.

The course focuses on the topics of avalanche emergencies and winter mountaineering emergencies, both companion rescue and organised rescue
in alpine terrain.

After successfully completing the basic winter training, course participants should be able to locate, dig out and treat one or more buried persons after an avalanche as part of a companion or organised rescue, as well as carry out the necessary techniques in the area of crevasse rescue (companion and organised rescue). Participants are also trained in the areas of radio, orientation, bivouac construction and makeshift rescue techniques so that they can rescue themselves or bring themselves to safety in an emergency.

Theoretical subjects

Tactical alpine medicine and first aid in winter
Mountain rescue in general
Alpine dangers in winter
Snow and avalanche awareness
Equipment and instrument technology
Radio and operational tactics
Avalanche transceiver search
Avalanche emergency
Avalanche operation
Rope and belaying technology
Ski mountaineering
Bivouac building
Tour planning
Cartography and orientation

Practical subjects

Tour planning
Cartography and orientation
Snow and avalanche awareness in backcountry
Bivouac construction in the field
Equipment and instrument technology
Rope, belaying and knotting skills
Hazard and accident awareness
Makeshift rescue techniques
Professional rescue techniques
Avalanche emergency
Professional avalanche operation
Tactical avalanche rescue

SUMMER COURSE

The aim of the basic summer training is to improve the participant’s own skills in summer mountaineering or in glaciated mountain terrain so that a mountain rescuer can move safely up and down in alpine terrain with mountaineering and climbing boots and with crampons and ice axes during summer missions.

The focus of the course is on emergencies in mountaineering in summer, both companion rescue and organised rescue in alpine terrain.

After successfully completing the basic training in summer, course participants should be able to rescue and care for one or more injured persons as part of a companion or organised rescue, as well as perform the necessary techniques in the area of crevasse rescue (companion and organised rescue). Participants are also trained in the areas of radio, orientation and makeshift rescue techniques so that they can rescue themselves or bring themselves to safety in an emergency.