GRIMPday 2009: Rescue professionals with no fear 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 d’Intervention 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: (...)