Avalanche Rescue Fundamentals
Refresh your knowledge of avalanche rescue through demonstrations of rescue techniques, professional lectures and quizzes.
Course Overview
Course Description
This course is designed as a seasonal refresher to keep your avalanche rescue skills sharp and reliable. Through professional lectures, clear demonstrations of rescue techniques, and interactive quizzes, you’ll reinforce best practices and critical decision-making under pressure. It’s an efficient way to rebuild confidence and ensure you’re prepared to respond effectively when it matters most.
Course Modules
This module sets the context for avalanche rescue by examining risk, accident statistics, and how people are most often injured or killed in avalanches. You’ll explore recreational risk management, the roles of asphyxiation and trauma, and how recent research is reshaping our understanding of avalanche fatalities.
Focusing on the tools that make effective rescue possible, this module breaks down essential avalanche safety equipment and how it’s carried in the backcountry. You’ll review packs, clothing systems, and trauma kits, with an emphasis on practical setup and realistic use during a rescue scenario.
Built around how rescues actually unfold, this module walks through the timeline of an avalanche and the core components of an effective companion rescue. You’ll see how rescue strategies change across single and multiple burial scenarios, with demonstrations that emphasize efficient searching, strategic shoveling, and coordination under pressure.
Shifting perspective to the person caught in an avalanche, this module explores actions and factors that influence survivability. You’ll review proven survival strategies and test your understanding of how victim behavior, snow conditions, and timing affect outcomes.
Grounded in real-world events, this module examines avalanche accidents through personal stories and well-known case studies. By analyzing what went right, what went wrong, and what can be learned, you’ll connect rescue principles to human decision-making and long-term education.
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