This SPAR Manual covers a set of assessments, skills and techniques that a small team of cavers can use to assist an injured member of their own party without the reliance or assistance from outside resources/teams. While written in the context of caving, these skills work in other environments. They are equally useful to mountaineers, rescue personnel, fire-rescue, rope access, arborists and military personnel dealing with specialised situations where minimal gear, urgency, remoteness and suboptimal anchor situations exist.
Weighing just under 2kg, this 600 page SPAR Manual / Guide is printed on water resistance paper and includes information on:
- Expedition planning
- SPAR decision making
- SPAR medical considerations
- Climbing systems
- Alpine SRT
- Haul systems
- Small party patient evacuation
- Water rescue considerations
- Contingency anchors
- Convert rigging (Static to Rescue)
- Improvised rescue systems
- Improvised ascending systems
- Small party rigging techniques
- Crack/crevice rescue
- Counterweight haul systems
- Pick-offs